Re: IE Icon on Taskbar Displays Only One Letter

This generally happens when mucho other windows are opened. Other than that
how do you settings read here? Start/Run/Regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\
MinWidth
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"S. Basinger" <basingers_public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>A strange occurance...occasionally, the IE icon on the Taskbar will only
>display one character instead of the entire page name.
>
> For example:
> When www.microsoft.com is typed, the icon usually displays "Microsoft
> Corporation - Microsoft Internet Explorer" on the Taskbar.
>
> However, intermittently I will sometimes get just an "M" on the icon. I
> cannot cause this to happen with any particular key stroke and seems to be
> random. It has occurred with numerous other webpages as well, with only
> their first initial appearing on the IE icon. If I hit <CTRL-N> and open
> a duplicate IE page, the full title appears normally on the Taskbar.
>
> This is a clean installation of WinXP Pro Ver. 2002 SP2 and IE Ver.
> 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519. The harddrive was reformatted
> less than a week ago. All Microsoft updates have been installed.
> Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware software are routinely run.
>
> Any solution to this mystery? I'll provide any additional requested info
> to help track this down.
>
> Sean
>


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