IE6 annoying features niggles.

When you have more than about a dozen tabs/buttons on the task bar for open windows/applications, IE6 decides to remove them and give you the small up/down arrows at the right hand side. Anyone know how to turn this off?

After a short time of not using IE you get a big message box saying "you have been idle for a time blah blah blah, click ok in the next five minutes or your session will expire blah blah blah. What’s this all about and how do you disable it?

Thanks.

 

McTavish--Concerning the taskbar buttons, try right clicking on an empty spot on the Taskbar|Properties|Taskbar tab. Uncheck "Group similar taskbar buttons "|Apply|OK.
There is a setting somewhere in Registry that determines how many "similar" tabs you must have for the "grouping" to occur. (Sounds like yours must be set at about a dozen.) But since you do not seem to want this behavior at all, I will go back to being too lazy to look it up!

 

It’s not that connection idle time box you’re thinking off Pete. It’s something else that must be IE6 specific, as I never saw it before with IE5.5. I’ve realised it’s only with IE windows that have a secure page left open and unused for a while. I’ve been trying to get it to do it again so I can get a screenshot, but as always these things never appear when you want them too.

Thanks Jim but the Group Similar Taskbar Buttons setting is not the kiddie. That’s been turned off since the first day I installed XP four odd years ago. I’m only now trying to sort the remaining niggles because I’m finally working towards moving full time from Win98 to XP. It’s all Google Earth’s fault.

 

Got the little begger.
This is the first one and if you click Cancel you get this one.

 

McTavish--If my suggestion about "grouping" is not what you were looking for then I guess I do not understand your question. Would post a screen shot?

 

Screenshot
Hi Jim, I can’t even remember what the grouping option does, but this is more just moving things out of view. In the screenshot I should have 12 buttons on the taskbar, but when the 12th opens the other 11 get moved out of sight and the up/down arrows appear next to the system tray and you have to click them to toggle between what has become essentially two taskbars.

If I expand the taskbar to double width I can see them all, but I could not live with that and I can guess what would happen at 24 buttons. It actually depends how wide the system tray is as to how many buttons you can fit in before they disappear.

Sorry about the file size and quality of the screenshot. I haven't installed my photo editing program in XP yet and i'm just using the Office Picture Manager.

 

McTavish--Thanks for the screen shot. Never saw that. What version of Windows are you using? I think it is a Windows Explorer matter, not IE. I presume you are not using Quick Launch since it seems to take the Quick Launch space.

About time for you to be asleep.
That is where I am going now.
Hope someone else will chime in and help.

 

It's XP Home with sp2 and all updates and the version of IE6 that came with it.

I keep the quick launch toolbar on autohide at the top of the screen Screenshot I guess I'd get even less buttons if I had it on the taskbar.

Try opening as many apps/windows as it takes to see if it happens to you?

Bed sounds like a good Idea. Good job I'm on holiday this week.

 

Thanks for that Pete, at least I now know it’s not some side effect of one of the many tweaks I’ve done. In Win98 the buttons just got smaller and smaller and all stayed in sight. It’s usually multiply open web pages that fills it up for me. Once I counted 36. You’re right Jim that it’s not an IE issue, but explorer or XP

Definitely no remote proxy of my doing and none used by my ISP. I thought perhaps the warning box was triggered by a secure page that was holding an established connection open to the server, but seem it’s just triggered on a time count - of about 30 minutes it seems. Not a bad thing really because I do often forget about pages when they get lost behind others. I’ll let that one go.