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Although I have "open new windows in a tab instead" checked off, periodically the windows collapse into one tab on the task bar.

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How do I stop this from happening?

How do I stop this from happening?

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Please explain what you were doing and how. Also include the web links.

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It happens by itself. The pages are in seperate tabs, I go to sleep, I wake up, the tabs are all in one tab. It doesn't happen with any particular websites.

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Are you talking about the Windows Task Bar?

There is a setting that reduces used space on the bar by placing the same program tabs into the same tab.

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Yes. How do I change the setting? I have Windows XP

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https://support.microsoft.com

I have Win 7. I don't know if you have the same menus. Right click on the task bat, and select Properties

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I have Windows XP. The only thing I could see in properties that might solve the problem was to uncheck "group similar buttons". I recently got a used computer that came with Windows XP. With my old computer which also had Windows XP the tabs simply got smaller as you opened more windows.

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Turn off group similar buttons

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That helped for a few weeks, but now its back to happening again.

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Check group similar buttons again.

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That is still unchecked

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I've called the big guys to help you. Good luck.