DisplayFusion RSS: Start Menu Taking Up One Virtual Screen https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72 DisplayFusion RSS: Start Menu Taking Up One Virtual Screen Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:30:14 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72 RE: Start Menu Taking Up One Virtual Screen https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#7 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:41:27 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#7 DisplayFusion Hi Will,

Could you send me a copy of your troubleshooting info? Here are the steps:

  • Open the Settings > Troubleshooting tab
  • Click the "Export Info to File" button
  • Reply with the file attached

Thanks! ]]> RE: Start Menu Taking Up One Virtual Screen https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#6 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 02:23:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#6 DisplayFusion Hi Owen,

The past week, it has been gotten extremely worse, now the task bar seems to jump around.

I do see the nvsmartmaxapp.exe & nvsmartmaxapp64.exe both running.

Will ]]> RE: Start Menu Taking Up One Virtual Screen https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#5 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:55:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#5 DisplayFusion Hi Will,

If you open up Windows Task Manager > Details, do you see a process running called "nvsmartmaxapp"?

Thanks! ]]> RE: Start Menu Taking Up One Virtual Screen https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#4 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:59:22 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#4 DisplayFusion Hey Owen,

It's been about a month and a half later and the issue finally re-occured...

It seems that I can't even get to the taskbar so I had to kill displayFusion and all relevant sub processes via task manager and kill explorer.exe and the issue still persists...

Do we believe this is an issue related to Windows 10 & having Nvidia surround installed?

I don't believe it's my install of windows since it's brand new and my previous install had the same issue. ]]> RE: Start Menu Taking Up One Virtual Screen https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#3 Wed, 25 Nov 2020 05:01:58 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#3 DisplayFusion Hi Owen,

It doesn't happen all the time, so next time it happens, I'll try that.

Will keep you posted. ]]> RE: Start Menu Taking Up One Virtual Screen https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#2 Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:52:50 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72#2 DisplayFusion Hello,

If you exit DisplayFusion by right-clicking the DisplayFusion tray icon, a DisplayFusion taskbar, or the DisplayFusion titlebar buttons and choosing Exit, does the issue still persist?

Thanks! ]]> Start Menu Taking Up One Virtual Screen https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72 Sat, 21 Nov 2020 20:30:08 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/start-menu-taking-up-one-virtual-screen/?ID=19308a3f-eb02-49ed-acb6-11870f45de72 DisplayFusion Hi all,

I've been having this weird bug where my start menu sometimes upon startup will over the entire top of my screen and nothing I do like restarting explorer.exe will resolve it...

My configuration consists of NVidia Surround enabled, auto hide windows task bar on the far right of the screen (please see screenshots). The issue also causes the Windows Taskbar to not appear as well.

Attaching DisplayFusion Output & Screenshot of the issue. ]]>