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RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:03:35 GMT

Glad to hear it, thanks for following up to let us know!

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:50:54 GMT

Thank you for the update Keith! I've been testing out the latest beta for a week or so now. It seems like this has resolved the freezing issues described. I set my DF taskbar pin back to opening Teams as a Metro app. Things are working fine.

I appreciate the patience and assists (shoutout to @csrowell too) in tracking this down.

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:16:02 GMT

We've released a new beta that should fix this up, you can grab it here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/

Please let me know if you run into any issues after updating.

Thanks!

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:49:40 GMT

Interesting, I can confirm that DisplayFusion.exe is the parent if the "Is Metro app" option is enabled. I will pass that info over to our developers and see what I can find out.

Thanks guys!

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:54:34 GMT

Quote:

I have good news for you: I can reproduce the issue 100% of the time. This post https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftTeams/comments/1cyno1u/after_weeks_of_new_teams_crashing_every_time_i/ eventually lead me to the fact that Teams' parent process was DisplayFusion. If launched from DF it will crash the instant a notification comes in. If you never get a notification, it continues to work forever.

I don't know if it has to do with the issue in that post (which I assume is the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service on my Windows 10 machine).

Aha! That would make a lot of sense. Maybe the is Metro app setting is indirectly having an impact on which process is marked parent.

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:52:35 GMT

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:14:34 GMT

Ok, that's really strange! I don't get that behaviour here at all with that option enabled. If it's working for you with it disabled, I would recommend just leaving it that way. If we get more reports of this, or we eventually reproduce it here, then we will investigate further.

Thanks!

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:47:16 GMT

This definitely is the trigger. I tried upgrading to v11.0.5, then re-enabling the option for the pinned item to be a Metro app. The freezing behavior immediately appeared so I have since disabled that option again.

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:05:10 GMT

Interesting! Not sure why that would make a difference but well do some testing with and without it enabled here.

Thanks!

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:47:55 GMT

In v11.0.2, the wallpaper settings dialog and applying wallpaper changes do not present a noticeable error anywhere.

What I have noticed is the behavior seems tied to this DF pinned taskbar item setting:

Is this application a Metro (Universal) App?

When that setting is enabled, Teams will freeze up frequently after lauching from a DF taskbar pinned item.
When that setting is disabled, no freezing occurs.

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:40:26 GMT

I've been running it here for a few days with no issues. Do you receive any Webview errors trying to launch the wallpaper settings window, or applying a wallpaper?

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:33:39 GMT

I think downgrading to v10.1.2 works around this issue for now. But it'd be nice to see it work in v11. I wonder if this could at all be related to some sort of WebView2 conflict between DF and Teams. New Teams for sure uses WebView2.

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:20:44 GMT

So quick update. I'm pretty certain this is being caused by being opened from DisplayFusion somehow. When DF is not running, Teams never freezes. If I open Teams from my native Windows 11 start menu, never freezes, even if I move it over onto a DF taskbar.

However, if I pin Teams to the DF taskbar, then open it from the DF pin, it freezes shortly afterwards. For clarification, this is the "new" Teams rolled in with Microsoft 365 Enterprise. It is not the classic Teams.

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:45:54 GMT

Okay strange, I'll keep it running here and let you know if I run into any issues as well.

Thanks!

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:25:08 GMT

I apologize, I think this may be related to another software that runs on my machine. It is a bit tricky to figure out which customization software causes hiccups when things go off the rails. Sometimes it is DF, sometimes Windows Defender (not the case here), sometimes Start11 (not the case here), and sometimes Windhawk (successor to 7++ Taskbar Tweaker).

If I find anything indicating a DF issue I'll post back, but I think this can be safely resolved for the time being.

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:12:11 GMT

It happens every time for me when opened from a DF taskbar pinned item. The length of time before it freezes varies from minutes to hours.

It seems to not occur if I have DF running, but start the Teams app from the a native Windows taskbar pin on a different monitor.

RE: Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:07:39 GMT

I tested it out here and it seemed to work fine. Let me know if launching it from the start menu causes the same issue

Microsoft Teams opened from DF taskbar freezes

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:52:58 GMT

Running Windows 11 24H2 x64 26100.2314, DF 11.0 and Teams (Windows Store app) 24295.605.3225.8804.

I just upgraded to DF 11 today, no other changes to Windows or apps (made intentionally by me at least). This behavior only started today. If I open Microsoft Teams from a DF taskbar pinned item, it will eventually freeze, becoming completely unusable. The title bar does not always say Not Responding, but nothing is clickable/usable. It is not clear to me how long Teams has to be open before this happens, or what action is triggering it to freeze. I am then forced to close Teams and re-open, upon which it will become usable for some amount of time before freezing again.

My DF taskbar pinned item has these options set:
Application Path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\MSTeams_24295.605.3225.8804_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\ms-teams.exe
Metro App ID: MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MSTeams
Force app to start on same monitor as taskbar: Yes
Is this app a Metro App: Yes

I am doing further testing to see if the following scenario also presents issues:
1. Have DF running on secondary monitors.
2. Open Teams from a primary screen - start menu or Windows taskbar - with no DF entry point.
3. Move Teams to a secondary monitor so the application appears on the DF taskbar.

Has anyone else reported anything like this? It seems entirely too coincidental that this was the only software change made before the exhibited behavior started.