'Minimized" problem

I'm not sure if this is this right place to post this or not, if it isn't
could someone please redirect me?
When I minimize a program it disappears, (it no longer shows up, minimized,
at the bottom of my screen, on the toolbar, like it's supposed to.
If it's an internet page it minimizes properly, but all others, such as word
documents, or files or folders, just disappear (when I CTRL+ALT+DEL to see
the open files, it says they are opened, but I have no way of maximizing them
again.

If anyone has any idea what has caused this, or how to fix it, please let me
know...

You may not like this old response of mine...........

If you mean you minimize an application and it
does not show on the Taskbar but can still be seen in Ctrl+Al+Del
then:

FriendsGreetings worm.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.friendgree...orm.htm
http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99760
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_FRIENDGRT.A

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows -Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.htm

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:37:00 -0800, in
microsoft.public.win98.display.general, calypso
<calypso RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I'm not sure if this is this right place to post this or not, if it isn't
>could someone please redirect me?
>When I minimize a program it disappears, (it no longer shows up, minimized,
>at the bottom of my screen, on the toolbar, like it's supposed to.
>If it's an internet page it minimizes properly, but all others, such as word
>documents, or files or folders, just disappear (when I CTRL+ALT+DEL to see
>the open files, it says they are opened, but I have no way of maximizing them
>again.
>
>If anyone has any idea what has caused this, or how to fix it, please let me
>know...