>Everyone knows that if you click on the icon of a running application on the Windows task bar, that application is brought to the top. FWIW, I just discovered that if you click on the task bar icon of the top task, that app is minimized and the previous top app is brought to the top. Is this a "Duh!" or is it widely known? Win98 SE here, BTW.

It only works with Active Desktop or certain OS, something like that. It works on some machines but not others, that much I know. For example, it works on my NT machine with AD on, but not my 95 machine without AD. It works on my 98SE machine with AD, as yours does. Maybe an AD setting?