Taskbar acting strangely

[Guest Rodf]

Hi,

I have XP Home edition running on a Dell 5150. All working fine until

yesterday when I noticed that when I want to swap between applications via

the taskbar - e.g. Word, Excel, IE - I have to click the icon in the taskbar

3 or 4 times before the window maximizes.

Normally, you only need to click the minimised window ONCE in the taskbar

and it will open.

 

What happens is this - when I want to change from Word to IE, I click IE in

the taskbar once, the minimised IE window icon changes from blue to orange.

I click IE in the taskbar a second time, then the icon starts flashing orange.

I click IE a third time and the IE window opens.

 

This is a real annoyance now.

Anybody got any ideas??

 

Cheers,

Rod