# Windows XP Windowing Problems
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-windowing-problems/156822
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 22, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-windowing-problems/156822 "2003-02-22T19:50:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-windowing-problems/156822/1 "2003-02-22T19:50:25Z")
I’ve been having an irritating problem with Windows XP recently, and was wondering if anyone else has experienced it or has a solution. Basically, occasionally clicking on a window in the taskbar doesn’t raise it to the foreground. It sets it as the active application (the title bar turns blue), but it stays behind whatever I was working on before.
For example, say I’m working in Oracle JDeveloper (this seems like it started with only Java applications, but now it’s started to affect everything) - I want to switch to WinCVS, so I click its icon on the taskbar. It gets selected, but the screen continues to display JDeveloper (with a grayed-out title bar). I have to minimize everything and then maximize WinCVS in order to see it. The problem appears to go away after I do that.
Any idea what’s happening here?
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp-windowing-problems/156822/2 "2003-02-23T00:42:37Z")
You can right click on the taskbar & select properties & look around in that. ALso, as usual, under the start menu: Hlp, is the XP manual & you can input ‘taskbar’ in the search box to bring up topics on it.