> > Any ideas as to what sort of program could interfere with PowerPro in > this way? I've ended every single non-"native to Windows" program on > my PC and still the PowerPro bar won't appear. The only things left > running are the various Windows services that Microsoft enable on > Windows. The only thing that fixes the problem is to reboot the PC > entirely, and that only works for a short time. >
It sounds like it is some program that starts, installs something that interferes, and that something does not go away when you end the program. But it could be other issues related to Vista that I just don't know about. As an experiment, try rebooting and ensuring no programs start except for standard system services. Ensure bar appears. Then start one of the programs you work with and no others. Test if bar appears right after starting the program. Work a bit with the program, continually retesting the bar. Try maximizing and minimizing. If all tests are successfuly, close the program and retest. Then try again with another program. I should also mention that there are times, fairly rare, when even on XP PowerPro seems to lose its "stay on top" setting with respect to some programs. This is a Windows bug AFAIK. Possibly you are seeing the same thing. But it sounds too prevalent to be that.
