I would think with that small monitor you would like to have as much 'real estate' as possible. You can change that by right clicking on your taskbar and go to 'Properties' and uncheck the 'hide task bar'. By the way, if you have your speakers on, it should beep at you when you get new mail. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deb Pfingsten" <debpf@xxxxxxxxxxx> (not total minimize which sends it to the task bar, which by > the way Robert doesn't make visible and I am lost without it being in plain > sight) so it is just waiting on my desktop. Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.