# Whats on your Task Bar right now?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-task-bar-right-now/146814>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 5, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-task-bar-right-now/146814 "2003-01-05T21:02:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-task-bar-right-now/146814/21 "2003-01-07T04:51:51Z")

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On OS X’s Dock:

Finder  
Mail  
Chat (never use it)  
IE  
Netscape  
Chimera (OS X browser)  
Entourage  
Word  
Photoshop 7  
Dreamweaver MX  
Fetch (ftp program)  
Address Book  
iTunes  
iPhoto  
iMovie  
Sherlock  
Toast (CD burner)  
Virtual PC  
Quicktime  
System Preferences  
OS X Info (takes you to Apple’s site, I think)  
Trash

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**Author:** ![twelfthsign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@twelfthsign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twelfthsign)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-task-bar-right-now/146814/22 "2003-01-07T05:45:00Z")

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Straight Dope.  
MSN Messenger.  
Outlook Express.  
…and I shifted Winamp to my System Tray only a couple of minutes ago.  
Word.

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-task-bar-right-now/146814/23 "2003-01-07T07:05:21Z")

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Norton Anti Virus  
Norton Firewall  
Windows Messenger  
AOL  
Scanner  
Norton Clean Sweep

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-task-bar-right-now/146814/24 "2003-01-07T07:16:03Z")

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-Opera (16 active windows, but Opera is civilized, so they don’t clutter up the task bar.)  
-Folder: Radio Shows  
-Winamp: Sam Spade - The Farmer’s Daughter Caper  
-Adobe Photoshop

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**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-task-bar-right-now/146814/25 "2003-01-07T20:12:01Z")

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Here at work, I see: MS-Outlook, MS-Excel, Windows Explorer, a Powerbuilder front-end to an Informix database, MS-Access, Oracle 8.0 Net8 Assistant, MS-Word, and two Internet Explorer windows (tuned to the SDMB, of course).

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