>I have so far not found any use for the Task Pane Manager in Visual FoxPro, and close it as soon as I start Visual FoxPro. Does anybody else find it useful, and actually uses it?

The only use I was benefiting from was something in regards to the news service, which is something I had worked on a few years ago. If I remember correctly, we were able to define which sources to get the news from and some other options.