Going on another window while playing WoW?

[Sterlin22]

When ever I play WoW and attempt to go on the internet without exiting WoW i'd hit the little flag button thingy which opens start and shows you your current windows, well it also takes me to desktop leaving WoW. So then i assume WoW is still running and I'll just do what i was gonna do and if I try to go back to WoW by clicking on the tab a little blue tab on the top left corner pops up saying " World of warcraft " and my cursor changes to the little hand, but that's it! It won't go any further and i have to ctrl alt dlt and go to task manager and exit out of WoW and btw when i hit end task on WoW it says " not responding ". please tell me what to do thanks! BTW incase it matters, im on a windows vista toshiba laptop.

[whitekidney]

Play in windowed mode or use alt+tab.

[TechnoKilla]

hit ESC
click video options
check 'windowed mode'

[Sterlin22]

hit ESC
click video options
check 'windowed mode'

ooh lol thanks!