I've used taskbar3.dll in my theme and I noticed I couldn't use the bang command to minimise all windows so I've included tasks.dll since it has this feature. I know nothing about tasks.dll. Can I expect some conflict between this module and taskbar3.dll?

taskbar3 doesn't carry the MinimizeWindows function, its in the core. I do have taskbar3 running and !MinimizeWindows works fine.

I guess it's depending of the Indiebuild you're using...
My !MinimizeWindows doesn't works since several months...
Don't know exactly when it get broken

i use ILS 9.02.2003 and !MinimizeWindows works fine :)

Then, I don't know. jDesk ?

it could be the indie build problem. Im running .24.7 beta 2.

I don't know what Indiebuild is. Where can I read about this?

Doesn't work here either, latest indiestep build. (!MinimizeWindows is in lsapi, and the implementation there looks ok)

The last change in the log I can see that might have affected this is:
- Fixed [Winlist / Vendicator / 2002-11-15]
- Renamed a variable so it wouldn't interfere with stl::list
but that sounds too simple...

Still, if it works in this build, but not this one, then I'd say check it out. (winlist is one of those COM interface things, I don't understand it, and I don't have the time to, otherwise I'd just look at the code)

The only other thing I might be suspicious of is the logging stuff. (or something that's not in the change log)

I downloaded http://indiestep.sourceforge.net/dl/ILS-2003-02-09.zip and !MinimizeWindows is now working without any problems.

You're right, that one works.

What's weird is that I was using a build made off of basically the same source and it didn't work. I copied those over, it worked. I copied the old ones back, it still worked. bizzare.

On that subject, have you tried ShowDesk.dll ?

I use it with the Win+M hotkey, just like explorer does.