you know the arrow in the round circle in your task bar that if you click on it it shows you icons that are hidden when inactive? well for some reason I have lost mine and I have no idea how to get it back the setting for hide inactive icons is checked how do I get this little arrow back ????

Try the following: "With WindowsXP, you can manually select how you want individual icons in the System Tray to be displayed. Right click on the Taskbar Select Properties Check Hide inactive icons Click on the Customize button This will bring up a dialog box that will allow you to select one of three options for your applications: Hide when inactive, Always hide, or always show Highlight current or past applications and make any changes you like. A small arrow will now appear in the System Tray that will allow you to show or hide these icons."

If you wait a while it will return as if by magic! It does that for some reason, if you change any task bar properties or anything like that, then it doesn't hide things for a while, it will reappear! Matt

Thanks so much for both the replies but I have already tried that and that didn't work I have lost that arrow now for over a week and I have icons set up to hide when inactive and ones to show all the time but I still can't get the arrow to come back and now it won't even bring up the icons that are set as hide when inactive......

Set one as always hide and see if that does it.

Thanks Sandman it worked !!!

Glad to help :þ