Windows XP interface has a lot of gorgeous features, presumably many friends are using it. But have you found that Windows XP likes to play hide-and-seek games with us? Some of the options that should have appeared on Windows systems are gone, and sometimes even other options will suddenly disappear! In fact, they are all hidden by Windows XP. Today we will play with Windows XP to find out these hidden items. The taskbar button that suddenly disappears does not know if you have encountered such a situation. When surfing the Internet in Windows 98, if there are too many IE windows open, the button on the taskbar will be squeezed very small, and sometimes the button will not be visible. The text on it. But in Windows XP, if you open too many windows, you will find that these buttons are suddenly reduced a lot. What is going on? Where did the buttons that suddenly disappeared go? Figure 1 The original taskbar is "grouped". In fact, this is a feature of Windows XP. This feature is called "grouping similar taskbar buttons". When there are too many taskbar buttons, it will group the same kind of buttons on a button to streamline the taskbar. To resume displaying these hidden taskbar buttons, we can right-click on the Start button, select the Properties option, and remove the "Group similar taskbar buttons" option in the "Taskbar Appearance" tab in the taskbar tab. The hook will do (Figure 1). The auto-hidden system tray icon always has several resident icons in the system tray of Windows 98, such as scheduled tasks, sounds and input methods. Sometimes other tasks are opened, and more icons are displayed in the system tray. However, in Windows XP, although there are icons displayed in the system tray, sometimes you will find that an icon will disappear unconsciously. What is going on? 2 Inactive icons automatically retreat to “behind the scenes” This is actually a feature of Windows XP “Hide Inactive Icons”. When an icon in the system tray has not been used for a while, Windows XP will automatically hide it. At this point you will find a round button in the system tray, and all the icons that are hidden by clicking this button will come out. Of course, we can set the icon hidden options by clicking the "Customize" button after the "Hide Inactive Icons" option in the Start Menu Properties option. In the Customize window (Figure 2), we click on the "Behavior" drop-down list behind a project to set three options to hide, always show, or inactive. The long-lost input method icon in Windows 98 will have an input method icon in the system tray. Click this input method icon to change the input method or set the input method. However, the tray area in Windows XP sometimes does not have this icon. What happened? This is because some options in the language settings are not turned on. If you want to reproduce the input method icon, we can double-click "Regional and Language Settings" in the Control Panel, then click the "Language" tab, then click "Details" "Information", in the "Text Service and Input Language" window that pops up, click the "Language Bar" button in the lower left corner, and in the "Language Bar Settings" window, open the "Show Language Bar on Desktop" option. You will find that the long-lost input method icon is back. Shortened Start Menus and Favorites After using Windows XP for a while, you will find that some items in the Start menu and IE Favorites are gone. In fact, they are hidden by Windows XP because of a start menu in Windows XP. If the project is not used for a while, it will be hidden. To see these items, we can click the bar button below the shortened start menu. Figure 3 Personalized Favorites Menu IE's Favorites also has this phenomenon, because the personalized favorites are used in IE, to cancel this function, you can click IE's Tools menu, select "Internet Options", click " The Advanced tab, find "Enable Personalized Favorites Menu" in the settings list and cancel it (Figure 3). Disappearing administrative permissions option In Windows 2000, for NTFS format disk partitions or folders we can set access rights by clicking the Security tab in the right mouse button properties, but in Windows XP you will find this option is gone, Windows XP is an upgraded version of Windows 2000. Of course, this option will not be omitted, but it is hidden. To resume displaying this "Security" tab, we can click on the "Tools" menu in the Explorer, select "Folder Options", then click on the "View" tab, in the "Files and Folders" list, Remove the checkmark before "Use simple file sharing" (Figure 4). Figure 4: Do not use simple file sharing to see Windows XP and these tricks we play, in fact, some of the humanized features of Windows XP are at work, some features are really good, but some do not necessarily suit our needs, choose or Give up and see everyone's needs.