Application Icon Does Not Minimize to the Taskbar

• Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you minimize an application, it does not minimize to the taskbar; instead, the icon disappears.

CAUSE

Some applications register a shell hook but do not forward it to the Windows shell, even though Windows programming documentation indicates this should be done. Because Windows 95 runs mainly in Ring 3, it cannot detect this hook and therefore cannot keep track of the application's icon.

NOTE: If one application has this problem, it can prevent other applications from minimizing to the taskbar as well.

The following applications are known to cause this problem:

• Audio Control (AUDCNTRL.EXE). This file is included with the Toshiba T4800Ct.
• TextBridge version 3.0 by Xerox Imaging Systems.
• EclipseFind by Phoenix Technologies.

WORKAROUND

Although you cannot see the minimized icon, you may be able to use the ALT+TAB key combination to cycle through the running applications.

If you do not load the application that causes this problem, your other applications minimize correctly.

NOTE: Applications can be executed automatically at Windows startup from the Startup folder or the Load and Run lines of the WIN.INI file.