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    Taskbar bug

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by hakira, Oct 12, 2011.

  1. hakira

    hakira <3 xkcd

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    I can't explain this properly, I've tried before but either nobody seems to understand or it just doesn't happen to anybody else.

    width='560' height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/elAsuh3Qwk8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/elAsuh3Qwk8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width='560' height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

    Surely someone out there has had this happen? Am I just going crazy? Is there a fix for this, I've had quite enough of it :confused:
     
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  2. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    Never had this happen to me. Have you tried with aero turned off, just to see if it is a graphics display problem or something more profound?
     
    tijo, Oct 12, 2011
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  3. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    The flashing orange may indicate that the program is not responding.
     
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  4. makaveli72

    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    Remove all the taskbar icons and add them back one by one?

    Those programs run fine from start menu, desktop etc.?
     
    makaveli72, Oct 12, 2011
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  5. Kuu

    Kuu That Quiet Person

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    Well this is worse than me with the flickering Window Previews that will flicker onscreen each and every pixel you move across an icon s:
     
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  6. hakira

    hakira <3 xkcd

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    Nope! They will flash even if launched from elsewhere, and it isn't just the programs pinned on the taskbar. Perfect example, Vegas isn't pinned, I opened it via start to render that video... flashed at me the whole way.

    Aero or not, it does the same thing... I know this because I set BFBC2 to make windows go to 'basic' mode to free up all possible resources, and it still does this - actually what happens is worse, I launch BFBC2 and instead of opening in fullscreen, it launches behind the steam window :s

    atb, all the programs seem to respond once I'm able to actually switch to them. I've also tried to kill and re-open explorer via task manager, no luck.

    Only thing that makes this go away is a reboot and even that seems like 50/50 once it gets going. It will behave for weeks at a time then all of a sudden bam, it annoys me for a couple days/reboots in a row.
     
    hakira, Oct 12, 2011
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