Windows 7 Taskbar bug

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ajua

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One thing I'm seeing since going RTM is that sometimes, when the Explorer window is the only left open and I click it to minimize it I have to do it twice. It appears that the first click gives it focus (although its already focused) and the second minimizes it.

This doesn't always happen. A clean install last week didn't solve it, so I'm guessing it has something to do with Windows itself or some driver (perhaps display?).

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Grunsprek

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Also having the same issue here. It happens fairly frequently. Please fix this bug!

I realize this thread is old but this problem cropped up on my new build which has 7 x64 installed. Someone upthread mentioned using "shift + rt. click" to bring up context menu which clears the highlighting from the icon. I then realized that I had just yesterday set a hotkey to a systray program (WordWeb) to the shift key. When I changed the hotkey back to Ctrl the sticky Windows 7 icon highlighting bug went away.

Huzzah for Neowin board!

Edit: oh well the problem just cropped up again. Guess I'll just keep my mouse cursor away from the taskbar unless I'm going to start an application. The only other thing I can think of I did recently was install windows live (messenger and writer). But I don't see what that could've done.

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Salty Wagyu

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It happens to me quite frequently, I just kill explorer.exe through task manager and open it again, problem solved.

Worst solution ever? Everyone knows that kills off some system tray icons too and you'd have to restart those programs as well to get it appearing again in the tray.

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BreakingBenjamin

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Worst solution ever? Everyone knows that kills off some system tray icons too and you'd have to restart those programs as well to get it appearing again in the tray.

Well, mine are still there, all of them. :huh:

This happens from time to time. Just Shift+RightClick the button to bring up the classic context menu and then click away. It'll fix itself. No need to kill explorer or reboot or anything drastic like that.

Nice tip, it works.

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Brandon H Supervisor

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i've had this happen a few time's

I've noticed a pattern with it, it usually happens when your ram is close to full or the cpu is running high, sometimes it'll fix itself usually you have to restart your computer to fix it

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MindTooth

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This happens from time to time. Just Shift+RightClick the button to bring up the classic context menu and then click away. It'll fix itself. No need to kill explorer or reboot or anything drastic like that.

Thank you :) That solved this annoying bug.

Its quite astonishing that Microsoft hasn't been able to provide a fix. Windows 7 were released over a year ago.

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Code149

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Haven't noticed such a thing.The only close 'bug' I have noticed since day one of Windows 7 is when you have more than one instance of an application open and hovering the mouse over between the application's task bar buttons doesn't look smooth, no fade-ins/outs.

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