DisplayFusion RSS: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d DisplayFusion RSS: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:26:10 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#52 Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:33:50 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#52 DisplayFusion Ok, that's good to know! I will setup the Windows Calendar on a test machine here and see if I can get this issue to occur. Thanks for your help tracking it down! ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#51 Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:22:18 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#51 DisplayFusion So a calendar meeting notification can still cause an issue.

Essentially one of the monitors does not turn on when the notification appears and the other monitor temporarily becomes the primary. If it goes back to blank-out mode and some time later I wake everything up normally... the old primary monitor takes back its place but a few windows might get moved around and the workspace area for the DF taskbar isn't set right.

Restarting Explorer is usually necessary to fix the workspace issue so that DF can be reset and further modify the workspace area. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#50 Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:13:57 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#50 DisplayFusion Sounds good, keep me posted if you can. We'll have the other customers check if they're using Windows Calendar notifications as well.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#49 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 19:37:06 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#49 DisplayFusion Yes, but I did not need to turn off all notifications, just for Calendar. I'll re-enable those notifications and see if I can still recreate the issue this week. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#48 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 14:07:11 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#48 DisplayFusion @JLJTGR: Interesting! Was it the notifications for the built-in Windows Calendar app? And you disabled them in Windows Settings > System > Notifications? ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#47 Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:54:05 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#47 DisplayFusion For my specific purposes, I don't encounter this issue as I described it. But I disabled desktop notifications of calendar events as it was the known trigger. I haven't looked back because the notification wasn't useful to me anyways.

None of the issues that I reported in my first two posts are a problem for me any longer with that one caveat of disabling the known cause.

Perhaps this thread should be discontinued since there are other threads that focus on other flavors of one of the issues. (I never encountered those alternate flavors, so I don't think this thread should be used for it) ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#46 Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:17:37 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#46 DisplayFusion Sorry, it has been a minute, but just a heads up, this is still a thing.

After every restart I have to restart explorer manually. I have a chrome tab that I always use on my secondary monitor and I keep forgetting about this and the downloads are showing up behind the bar, so I can't see them. I keep thinking something is wrong because my downloads aren't showing up, then I remember.

I am still on Beta 16. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#45 Mon, 16 May 2022 17:25:42 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#45 DisplayFusion Just installed it, lets see how it goes. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#44 Mon, 16 May 2022 15:51:18 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#44 DisplayFusion Hello,

This issue should be fixed up in the latest beta, available here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta. With this beta, DisplayFusion should prompt you to restart explorer when the issue happens. Please let me know if you still run into any trouble after updating.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#43 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:39:22 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#43 DisplayFusion
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Next time it happens, if you kill and restart explorer.exe, then restart DisplayFusion, does that also fix it?


It just happened again, but during a normal restart. I restarted explorer and tehn restarted display fusion and that worked for this session. If it does it again I will try again. Maybe I will write a script to do this so I don't have to go through all the manual steps. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#42 Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:02:43 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#42 DisplayFusion Next time it happens, if you kill and restart explorer.exe, then restart DisplayFusion, does that also fix it? ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#41 Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:46:09 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#41 DisplayFusion Just keeping this updated, my taskbar crashing/restarting over and over again did it again last night. We had a storm and the power went out, when the computer restarted the taskbar started the crashing thing again. This time I tried simply signing out and signing back in, that fixed it for that session. I did not need to do a full restart. Maybe there is something that happens during a clean shutdown that the startup needs to function? ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#40 Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:17:20 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#40 DisplayFusion I think there are potentially two separate issues (though similar) here. We have a couple of ideas so we'll let you know when they're ready to test out in a new beta.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#39 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:18:27 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#39 DisplayFusion Mine is still the crashing and a restart that does it. Had a power outage yesterday, and when it came back on the Taskbar started doing it again. I had to do a clean shutdown and restart to fix it. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#38 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 04:38:55 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#38 DisplayFusion Well, I'll try and be optimistic, but restarting Explorer actually fixes the issue for me, not triggers it~

(I know crashing/restarting was a trigger for someone else, so I hope their issue gets better.) ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#37 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:42:44 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#37 DisplayFusion Quick update on this. I was able to reproduce the issue when explorer.exe crashed or restarted, looks like DF isn't detecting that and reloading the taskbar to fix the work area on Windows 11. We've got this on our list to fix up for the next beta and that should hopefully get the job done :) ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#36 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:48:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#36 DisplayFusion Uninstalled ExplorerPatcher and rebooted and it still happens.

I still have a suspicion that it requires the monitor that remains plugged in to be in portrait mode and the other monitor to be landscape. When in step 7 in my list, the previously portrait monitor is temporarily landscape. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#35 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:54:05 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#35 DisplayFusion I've tried that out here as well with no luck reproducing the taskbar reloading issue. Are you able to reproduce it consistently? If so, would you be able to see if it still occurs without ExplorerPatcher installed? ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#34 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 22:21:57 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#34 DisplayFusion The closest analogy I can think of for true computer monitors to behave as my left screen does is to actually unplug the video cable during video suspend.

  • Have two monitors hooked up with spanned desktop.
  • Set "When plugged in, turn off my screen after" to 1 minute.
  • Wait for screens to blank.
  • Unplug the video cable of the screen with the primary taskbar(which is set to auto-hide)
  • Wait a few seconds and plug the cable back in.
  • The other screen might wake from suspend but remain blank.
  • Use the mouse/KB to wake Windows. (for me, only 1 screen is detected and has switched from portrait to landscape)
  • Power on the other screen to restore the spanned desktop
]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#33 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:25:03 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#33 DisplayFusion I'm still working on trying to reproduce this issue here, but no luck so far. I've tried sleep/wake cycles of the monitors and the machine. If you come across anything else that seems to trigger it, definitely let me know.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#32 Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:52:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#32 DisplayFusion Yeah, I have no idea. It isdoing it right now, and I just rebooted my machine. So annoying. It was working fine before I rebooted, but I needed to for another reason. I am including my debug info. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#31 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 04:01:39 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#31 DisplayFusion
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I am having the same issue. I turned on Beta updates and the latest one caused exactly this. The bar would appear, then disappear every 10 to 15 seconds. And randomly, if I maximized a window it would still go behind the taskbar. After a reboot it seems fine so far, but I know something will cause it to fail again.

I read your other thread and it sounds like you haven't nailed down your trigger. For me, I know exactly what will cause it and I can avoid it for most of a week. It entirely has to do with my monitors going to sleep and one of them has a deep sleep where it disconnects from HDMI and confuses Windows for a bit. If I turn it back on first before taking Windows out of screen suspend, everything will stay fine.

I don't know of any other triggers for me that will cause the working area to be miscalculated. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#30 Sat, 12 Mar 2022 03:00:52 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#30 DisplayFusion
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So, beta 13 is different... I can see it trying to solve the issue... but it is unable to.
I woke my monitors in the wrong order on purpose to replicate the issue and found that DF would remove and re-add the taskbar every 15+3 seconds. The taskbar would be gone for 3 seconds and once back it would try again 15 seconds later. In some ways having the DF taskbar disappear every 18 seconds is worse than the previous problem.
If I restart Explorer, I do not need to restart DF anymore. The 18 second re-taskbar period will fix the reserved space during the next loop. I was pretty suspicious that this was at least in part Windows' fault. I sort of don't like restarting Explorer because some of my tasktray icons don't come back until I restart those programs.
I turned logging on L1 for a few minutes during the 18 second loops. Maybe it'll tell you something.

I am having the same issue. I turned on Beta updates and the latest one caused exactly this. The bar would appear, then disappear every 10 to 15 seconds. And randomly, if I maximized a window it would still go behind the taskbar. After a reboot it seems fine so far, but I know something will cause it to fail again. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#29 Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:52:09 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#29 DisplayFusion No, Start11 by Stardock and ExplorerPatcher. ]]> RE: Win 11- 10.0b7 - Multi-Monitor Taskbar Issues https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#28 Fri, 11 Mar 2022 19:31:14 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-11-100b7-multi-monitor-taskbar-issues/?ID=1f0032b0-2843-4b80-85ba-1be7e7add96d#28 DisplayFusion Quick question here, do you have "StartAllBack" installed on your system? ]]>