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Opera and Windows 7: Turn off displaying thumbnails when taskbar icon is clicked

I find it very annoying that every time I click on the Opera program icon in the task bar, I am presented with a set of thumbnails of tabs currently open, rather than just maximising the bloody window. Why the hell do I have to go through an extra mouse-click to get to my window?

I suspect that this setting is useful in some niche cases. But I am yet to encounter any of them. That said, Microsoft have - thank dog - in their infinite wisdom, deigned to include a toggle for this setting. The following steps should outline how to turn this bleeding enhancement *cough* off:

    Getting free stuff off the net the 0ld sk001 w4y :S

    While it has become rather easy to score stuff off the net thanks to p2p piracy, there is another old skool (sic) method of getting the goodies that many people aren't aware of - via a search engine.

    This relies on the fact that lotsa people (fucking idiots if you ask me) dump a shit load of stuff on their web servers to share with their friends, for a temporary back-up or whatever, and totally forget about it. They don't realise that web crawlers will index these pages and essentially make them public in no time.

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