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How can i get damn new windows in taskbar to NOT flash?!

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God this is the most annoying thing ever. Running win2k. Downloaded tweakUI and supposedly turned this off but it makes no difference. It makes me want to cut myself.
 


<< God this is the most annoying thing ever. Running win2k. Downloaded tweakUI and supposedly turned this off but it makes no difference. It makes me want to cut myself. >>

Didn't you ask this once before?

Or was that someone else? 🙂
 
If you open a program and imediately switch to something else, the program will flash when it fully loads. I've not been able to turn this off at all (with Win2k and TweakUI), and I agree that it's annoying. But if I open a program, I usually wait until it loads to do anything. That and AIM are the only things that make the taskbark flash at me, so it's not all that annoying to me really.

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I asked before and was told to use tweakUI, but it doesn't work. The reason this annoys the last christ out of me is that if I'm chatting to people and somebody walks over to my computer sometimes MSN will have spawned 3 flashing windows with various people talking to me. It's very unprofessional and extremely annoying. Sometimes I just want to wait to talk to somebody instead of windows barking in my face.
 
Get Xteq X-Setup 6.1 - you should have this program to help tweak any version of Windows anyways. Look under:

All X-Setup Plug-ins > Appearance > Taskbar > Flash Taskbar Options #1 and #2.

#1 allows you to enable/disable flashing completely. #2 lets you specify the number of flashes (if enabled).
 
Grr, did this and it has no affect on Win2k at all. My MSN windows are still flashing like it's going outta style.
 
I think this is pretty handy.

I believe if you disable the taskbar flashing, that it will be like Win95, where if a new program or window automatically opens up, it will grab the window focus and you will have to manually click to get back to the window you were originally in.
 


<< Just tried autohide again. I've always found it very annoying not knowing what is open at all times... >>



damn you're picky. 🙂

you can cycle between what's open with alt-tab. just hold alt-tab, that will show you what's open. you can check what's open in the hidden taskbar by placing the mouse cursor where the taskbar is. that will bring the hidden taskbar.

i guess you're going to have to compromise. that's winders for ya.

 
Oh, MSN Messenger itself. Messenger is like that whether you like it or not, the closest thing I could find is a Boss panic button.

Messenger Plus! Add-on

Great, great freeware add-on for MSN Messenger that lets you do logging, hide ads, enable auto-idle times, assign a Boss panic button (like CTRL-Space) that minimizes/hides all of your chat windows and puts you into Busy mode.
 
ok, i just did this yesterday on my windows 2000 pc.

first off, there is no way to stop the flashing. but you can make it flash only once and you can make the window automatically come to the foreground. i like to keep the task bar hidden and just hate that not only does the window icon flash, but the task bar is made visible and is locked. so i set the flashing to 1, and made it so the window comes to the foreground. now my taskbar doesn't lock. it is annoying that the active window i'm working on gets pushed to the background, but it is not as annoying as the taskbar locking and the flashing.

here's how to do it. bring up the registry and find the following key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

under desktop, find ForegroundFlashCount and ForegroundLockTimeout. the first one, as the name suggests, controls the number of times the window icon will flash. the default is 3. i set it to 1. the second one is the time windows waits before bringing the application to the foreground. the default value is 200000 msec. i set it to 0. set those two values to whatever you like and reboot.

so now the window icon flashes once and the window is brought to the foreground. the task bar doesn't lock either.
 
Huh. Why wouldn't you want that? I'm not sure that new windows flash.. but I know that the windows flash when like, you get a new IM.. is that windows, or the messenger doing that?
 
i think it is applications making some windows system call. i can make IE's window icon flash - run the code editor in the foreground, click on the IE icon in the fast start bar and go back to the code editor. now when IE is done loading the home page, the window flashes and the task bar comes up by itself. i can make outlook do the same. secure CRT (a non-microsoft program) also does it.
 
forgot to mention that setting ForegroundFlashCount to 0 will NOT stop the flashing. instead, it will make the icon flash forever.
 


<< Grr, did this and it has no affect on Win2k at all. My MSN windows are still flashing like it's going outta style. >>


I used xteq to get rid of the flashing on my win2k machine. Worked like a charm. Not sure if it's a change you have to reboot to have take effect.
XTeq is weird though. You have to hit the "apply changes" button before you switch to any other "options" in it otherwise, the changes get erased.
 
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