May I suggest you try the new Win7 taskbar, which seems to me like a stationary rocket dock.
It can have any program pinned to it, then shows a complete history with rightclick. It folds out very useful and sizeable thumbnails of open windows so you can quickly choose one to Open or close just by clicking on it or it's red X.
I had a friend who I installed Win7 for who wanted his rocket dock installed and was hardly willing to listen to the features of the new taskbar because he liked the rocketdock's animation (which wont' seem to hold still for me and thus is annoying).
But he relented and after I demonstrated it he has been quite happy ever since. Never had to find out that it has the bug you've discovered.
I totally agree, Greg.
And to clarify this to the poster, here is a screenshot of my task bar (I should've thought of this sooner - doh!):
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Virtual Machine OS: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit SP1 CPU: AMD A4/A6 Motherboard: Intel Corporation 440BX Desktop Reference Platform Memory: 3.00GB EDO Graphics Card: VMware SVGA 3D Sound Card: High Definition Audio Device Monitor(s) Displays: Generic Non-PnP Monitor on VMware SVGA 3D Screen Resolution: 1440x900 Hard Drives: 1 x 60GB VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive ATA Device Antivirus: Kaspersky Total Security
How to Change the Orange Flashing Taskbar Button Color in Windows 7
This tutorial will show you how to change the orange flashing taskbar button color in Windows 7. You could use it to change to other states also.
You should make a new theme so the defaut aero.msstyles does not get corrupt....
hello, my win7ult pc has worked flawlessly until i installed a new LCD cable and microphone behind the display. Then the battery would not charged....fixed that....now the pc wakes up every five minutes when it is asleep....
I found in events log that it is my power button that is cause the wake...