This was also the case with minimized applications in Windows 95 and as such you could click below the box.
In Windows 98 they realized the mistake - but in a typical Microsoft way of solving things, instead of simply making the area clickable below they instead forced the mouse up by 2-3 pixels every time you decided to be so silly as to try and click below the box.
In Windows 98 they realized the mistake - but in a typical Microsoft way of solving things, instead of simply making the area clickable below they instead forced the mouse up by 2-3 pixels every time you decided to be so silly as to try and click below the box.