DisplayFusion RSS: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4 DisplayFusion RSS: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion Mon, 25 May 2026 02:42:04 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4 RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#37 Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:37:36 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#37 DisplayFusion Hi Doug,

Not a problem! There's no rush for running these tests, and we're happy with you doing the best you can :)

We appreciate the feedback, and thank you for taking the time to test it out.

If you head to the options tab in Display Fusion, you can enable "Check for updates automatically", so you'll be notified when we have software updates.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#36 Wed, 11 Nov 2020 03:31:03 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#36 DisplayFusion The last post I made to this discussion was that I was too ill to reply to :

"@DougPrice Could you try heading to Windows Settings > Personalization > Colours, and disabling "Automatically Pick an accent colour from my background" and see if that helps?"

My apologies for the awful delay, but the fact is that my (declining) health means that I am only strong enough to devote 1-2 hours a day to my P, and that includes time taken to watch TV on my PC. I'm sorry, but I can't change that.

I had proved to my satisfaction that the instability I had noticed on my PC for some months disappeared after two changes:
1. I made an expensive to Adobe Acrobat from V2017 to 2020
2. I disabled DisplayFusion from managing my wallpapers (dual monitors)

The bulk of my instability issues were caused by wallpaper management.

You asked "@DougPrice Could you try heading to Windows Settings > Personalization > Colours, and disabling "Automatically Pick an accent colour from my background" and see if that helps?". At first my reaction was, "I've never played with that!" But when I did check, that option was enabled!! I have no idea why this had been enabled or what program did it.

I can now confirm the following. All instability in Win10 v2004 has disappeared after:
1. Acrobat upgraded (the full version, not just the Acrobat reader)
2. I disabled "Automatically Pick an accent colour from my background" in Winows Settings (ie a Microsoft setting), as you suggested.
and 3. I am still using the SAME version of DisplayFusion "DisplayFusion Pro 9.7 Windows 10 Pro 2004 (10.0.19041)" that I was using when I first posted the problem. (I was the OP 3 weeks ago)

I am so sorry that my reply time is so slow. Before commenting I always try to cross check things, and given my health, that doesn't happen overnight. It's a very sad fact that we all get old.

Remember that 20 days ago, I said, "And just to be clear I don't hold anyone to blame, definitely not Binary Fortress". This crazy world always wants to blame someone.

Please email your paying customers when there is any software update. I don't have the time to trial Beta versions.

I hope this helps
Regards,
Doug
Australia ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#35 Sat, 07 Nov 2020 00:34:41 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#35 DisplayFusion I don't know if this is the beta (Beta 6) that fixed it or a recent update to windows (19041.610) that fixed it, but my screen saver is working again. Just figured I'd update on that. ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#34 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 20:45:12 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#34 DisplayFusion @Owen, thanks for your help/suggestions. Atleast I know they reason for my problem now :P
Well, I would love to have a fix for this function in the future, since it's way more pleasant to have transitions between wallpapers, but for now I can live without it :D

Regards Pierre ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#33 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:02:50 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#33 DisplayFusion Hello,

@PierreKnudsen, Unfortunately, that's our only work around at the moment, as that setting doesn't seem to work well with Display Fusion. If a more permanent fix comes up in the future, either on Display Fusion's side or Windows, we'll be sure to let you know.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#32 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 16:37:06 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#32 DisplayFusion @Owen,
yeah, it's definitly "Use transitions when changing wallpaper" that was causing the slow down I had since Win10 19.04. My system was now running fine for 19 Hours without any problems. Since u sugested to deactivate it, I guess I'm not the first person experiencing this problem. Do u have a suggestion how this could be fixed from my side, or is that something DF isn't able to handle right now/at the moment on Win10 ?

Regards Pierre ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#31 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:44:23 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#31 DisplayFusion
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Hello,

@KarlV, Thanks for posting that video! That behavior is expected, as it's our current work around from Microsoft Edge crashing explorer.exe when it's removed from the windows taskbar.

@PierreKnudsen, Can you try disabling "Use transitions when changing wallpaper" in the Wallpaper settings in Display Fusion?

Thanks!


@Owen, thanks for your response. Hehe tbh I realy hope it's not because of that. It looks disgusting seeing the wallpaper changing that way. But well.. I will give it a try and reply back in 10 hours. ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#30 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:07:47 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#30 DisplayFusion Hello,

@KarlV, Thanks for posting that video! That behavior is expected, as it's our current work around from Microsoft Edge crashing explorer.exe when it's removed from the windows taskbar.

@PierreKnudsen, Can you try disabling "Use transitions when changing wallpaper" in the Wallpaper settings in Display Fusion?

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#29 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:20:43 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#29 DisplayFusion
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Hello,

@KarlV, Is this happening with any other apps, or just edge? A video would be great.

@PierreKnudsen, Do you have Display Fusion manage your wall paper? If so could you try heading to Windows Settings Personalization Colours, and disabling "Automatically Pick an accent colour from my background" and see if that helps?

@mviperen, Could you try again? We've refreshed our website.

Thanks!


Hello Owen,

thanks for your response.
Yes, the only thing I use DF for is to manage my wallpapers across my displays and in the login/lock screen. (Edit: Other functions used (mostly default settings): "Wallpapers, Lock Screen, Window Snapping, Window Management, Mouse Management, Alt+Tab)
Sadly even after upgrading to the latest BETA I'm still facing the problem, that my system begins to stutter after some hours of uptime.

The option "Automatically Pick an accent colour from my background" was never activated. So it can't be that :D

Regards Pierre ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#28 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:10:24 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#28 DisplayFusion Download is ok now.
Just installed and enabled the taskbar, hope it's more stable and if so. Will let you know..

Settings interface has a nice update, looks better in my opinion. ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#27 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:05:14 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#27 DisplayFusion @Owen - this shows the 'Windows' taskbar on the right hand screen and 'DisplayFusion' taskbar on the left.

From what I have seen, it is only the Edge browser that gets 'stuck' on the Windows taskbar.

Hope this helps... ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#26 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:50:04 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#26 DisplayFusion Hello,

@KarlV, Is this happening with any other apps, or just edge? A video would be great.

@PierreKnudsen, Do you have Display Fusion manage your wall paper? If so could you try heading to Windows Settings Personalization Colours, and disabling "Automatically Pick an accent colour from my background" and see if that helps?

@mviperen, Could you try again? We've refreshed our website.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#25 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:54:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#25 DisplayFusion
Quote:
Hi Karl,

I forgot to post here, sorry! This issue should be fixed up in the latest beta, available here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta. Please let me know if you still run into any trouble after updating.

Thanks!


Trying to download but only the zip seems to work, installer and msi result in a 404 error.
Would love to update as I'am also having lots of instability issues with taskbars since 20H2 ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#24 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:49:29 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#24 DisplayFusion Well,

Regarding the instability problem.. Since I last year installed "Win 10 19.04" I had the problem, that after 6 Hour's of uptime, my system began to stutter. It wasn't noticable, but after 8-10 Hours it was nearly impossible to use the system without a restart. Dragging chrome tabs out of its window to its own window or another display, was slow and laggy. Adding the TAB back to another existing window it was just popping in and out until it after some sec docked into the window. Moving the mouse around felt laggy and playing games u could feel small fps drops and mouse stutter.

Since the beginning of this year I upgraded my hardware. I never thought it would be because of the hardware, since my old hardware already was highend, so the problem persisted.

A month ago I did a clean installation of windows, the problem persisted still. Now the last 5 days I was playing around with disabling services in msconfig, sorting out autostart programms and found that DisplayFusion was causing the problem. Turning DF off and letting the system run for 24 hours I have never been happier about to see my system working smooth AF without a restart. Even docking browser tabs to browser window felt super smooth and totaly responsive.

For now I will give the Beta a try and hope that this will fix this mess :D

Regards Pierre ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#23 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:33:22 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#23 DisplayFusion Cool, thanks Owen.

In general, it seems to have cured the issues I was seeing previously, thanks.

Only one thing I have noticed - and it's an odd one - is that the MS Edge browser tab appears on both Taskbars if it is on the 'DisplayFusion' taskbar screen. This does not happen with any other application that I can see (including other browsers like Chrome).

I'll try to explain a bit more...

If I have the Edge browser open on my 'Windows taskbar' screen, the tab ONLY appears on that screen. If I have the Edge browser open on my 'DisplayFusion taskbar' screen, the tab appears on both taskbars.

Hopefully the attached screen shots help. The Edge browser is open on my 'Display Fusion taskbar' screen only. Tricky to try and explain with words. Happy to take a quick video for you if that will help...

Other than that, looking good...

Cheers.

Karl. ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#22 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:08:58 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#22 DisplayFusion Hi Karl,

I forgot to post here, sorry! This issue should be fixed up in the latest beta, available here: https://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta. Please let me know if you still run into any trouble after updating.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#21 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:50:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#21 DisplayFusion Hi @Owen

I see that 9.7.1 Beta 5 was released today and that the change notes seem to tackle a few of the issues in this thread.

Are we set to install this and give it a go?

Thanks. ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#20 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:48:44 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#20 DisplayFusion
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@MarkGunnet We're hoping to have this fixed up in the latest beta.

@DougPrice Could you try heading to Windows Settings > Personalization > Colours, and disabling "Automatically Pick an accent colour from my background" and see if that helps?

Thanks!


I am very ill. I will attempt to try this soon. ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#19 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:33:02 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#19 DisplayFusion Hi Mark,

Interesting. Lets wait for the next beta, and see if it fixes that up. If the issue persists, we can go from there.

Thanks for your patience! ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#18 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 19:23:01 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#18 DisplayFusion Hi Owen,

I have 10 minutes set. I assume maybe it's a chrome tab currently preventing Display Fusion from kicking the screensaver in.

https://i.imgur.com/fckCQFh.png
]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#17 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:09:28 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#17 DisplayFusion Hi Mark,

What do you have the timeout set to in the Screen Saver tab in Display Fusion?

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#16 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:55:20 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#16 DisplayFusion Sounds good. I've also noticed my screensaver has stopped working. Computer is remaining unlocked now since it never kicks in. Can't tell if that's DisplayFusion or windows doing something with the activity timers or w/e.

I have the latest beta already installed, so just waiting for you guys to push your new one in the next couple weeks :) ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#15 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:29:50 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#15 DisplayFusion @MarkGunnet We're hoping to have this fixed up in the latest beta.

@DougPrice Could you try heading to Windows Settings > Personalization > Colours, and disabling "Automatically Pick an accent colour from my background" and see if that helps?

Thanks! ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#14 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:18:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#14 DisplayFusion I am surprised with the range of issues people are having. A part of the reason that I took so long to diagnose my problems is that all aspects of Displayfusion were working OK. All my issues were with mouse responsiveness, File Explorer flashing on and off, and eventually freezing. The end result was a total freeze, even Taskmanager froze and recovery was only possible by doing a complete reset. Every the old reliable CTRL-ALT-DEL did not response. But disable DF's management of the wallpaper, all these issues disappear.

If Binary Fortress read this: With a fresh reboot, all worked well for maybe 15-20mins, then the mouse would start to slowup, then File Explorer would gradually slow more and more. So perhaps the problem was related to my wallpaper getting refreshing a new image, often set at 10 - 30 mins intervals. ]]> RE: Win 10 instability when using DisplayFusion https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#13 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 22:01:14 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/win-10-instability-when-using-displayfusion/?ID=c8d06235-c218-48bb-9b33-3bb14c02e1f4#13 DisplayFusion I recently updated to 2004, and my DisplayFusion has been acting kind of weird. I haven't had any of the performance issues yet (I just updated less than a week ago), but the display fusion task bar keeps "blinking", where the start button vanishes and re-appears after a second.

I've also noticed that DisplayFusion is visible over fullscreen applications even though that settings is unticked in the settings.

I'll go ahead and switch on the beta update notifications so I can switch to the beta and test it out when it's out. ]]>