Windows Task Manager "hidden feature"

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: Windows Task Manager "hidden feature"
Date: 12:40 on 05 Aug 2004
Colleague of mine just turned his monitor my way: 
"Look! Task Manager's gone funny again!"  
The window border (along with resizers, corner buttons, title bar) had
completely disappeared, as had the menu bar, the
"Applications/Processes..." tab bar, the status bar at the bottom...
all that was left was a floating grey panel with a processes list and
the "End Process" button at the bottom. In order to get rid of the
window, he had to kill the process.

Turns out (as the MS KB article below casually states) that on the
lower left side of the panel, in between the main process/apps list
and the status bar, there's an *invisible toggle* which you can
double-click to switch this, um, feature on and off.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q314227

Fantastic work, Windows Team! 

-- Yoz

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