My Tiny Footprint is frozen

[undyingking]

Quite a weird situation just now where my Task Manager (in XP) lost its menus, tabs, and the stuff at the bottom. I assumed it was the manifestation of some hideous system error, but no, apparently it's deliberate and is called Tiny Footprint mode. You can toggle in and out of it by double-clicking on the border of the Task Manager window. Why anyone would want to I'm not sure, as it's a bit of a misnomer -- "About 90% of the Usual Footprint but with Vastly Reduced Functionality" would be a better name for this mode.

Presumably I double-clicked on it by accident at some point and didn't notice. Well, if it happens to you, you know now. Or if you knew about it already, or are unnerved by the mere mention of Task Manager, please retrospectively ignore this post...

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Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

The main point of tiny footprint mode is not the few lines of info it gets rid of but the fact that when in that mode the minimum size for the Task Manager is removed, so you can make it as small as you like. (Yes, it's resizable even though it doesn't have a resize mark in the bottom right corner anymore.)

Since it's an "always on top" window, this is actually quite useful.

Could be better documented, though !

[chrisvenus]

I can indeed see that as being useful at times.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Aha, all becomes clear -- thanks!

[gbsteve.livejournal.com]

You can also click on the graphs to get them to fill the whole frame.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

So you can! Again I can't imagine really wanting to, but it's nice to know it's there if it should ever be important. Whatever next?