Lee has his speakers on all the time. I don't. Maybe if I weren't so short or moved them down within MY range of motion I would leave them on and turn the volume down when some obnoxious music begins. If I am waiting for mail and want to be alerted, I do turn the speakers on and let it make the noise I chose to alert me. Otherwise, they are usually off. I wish the "new mail" icon would show up in the taskbar. It did once. Then disappeared and never returned. Well, hush my mouth. As I sit here what does appear? New mail icon. But it didn't stay very long. Ok. I stand corrected on that one. All's well that ends well. Deb Pf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert McLellan" <bobmclellan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 7:45 AM Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Blank Preview pane 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. 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.