I tried to search and google for a fix, I haven't been able to find a solution.

When playing in a full screen window game, the taskbar will appear on top of the game window.
Battlefield 4 and Starcraft 2 both have this issue. I believe it's display fusion taskbar.
In World of Warcraft, the displayfusion taskbar is hidden and the windows taskbar is shown. If I alt tab, I can't get the display fusion taskbar to come back while World of Warcraft is running.

Battlefield 4

Stacraft 2

Wow

Wow Alt tabbed

World of Warcraft is detected as fullscreen.
Battlefield 4 and Starcraft 2 are not detected as fullscreen.

Is there a way I can manually select which programs to be as fullscreen or not?

I closed displayfusion and the windows taskbar was on top of the window.

What's weird was when I first loaded the game, I noticed that the taskbar wasn't on top of the window. Only until I alt+tabbed out the taskbar was on top from then on.

I think this is now the windows taskbar causing issues. I googled for methods to put the taskbar on bottom.
I found a program called Win7 Taskbar Masher. This allows any program to be above the taskbar. I can use this as a band-aid fix.

Battlefield 4 has the middle taskbar missing while the left and right taskbar as visible. When I alt+tab out the middle taskbar comes back on top and stays there.
If I run the win7 taskbar masher, it'll hide the middle taskbar behind the game window.

Would it be possible to add a feature to display fusion similar to the win7 taskbar masher?
Here is a link to the program www.csparks.com/Win7TaskbarMasher/

If there's any thing else I can do or information you need, please let me know.

Displayfusion is a great program that continues to get better with every issue you guys fix.

I got the same problem too with game protected by GameGuard.
using the compatibly list only works for few second because the game will then missing/hidden from the process list because of GameGuard.

GameGuard has no exe. there is only this GameGuard.des that will run for a fraction of second and then gone from the process list too.
and I have tried to add the GameGuard.des to the compatibility list,
however nothing fixed.

both the game and the gameguard is missing from the process list. its like they where closed.

I am monitoring it with process explorer and still has not see where the application has gone.
However the application is still exists in the Task Manager Application tab, while not in the Processes tab.
it still exists in the taskbar and alt-tab too.

if I Right-click the application in the Applications tab and choose "Go to Process" it will change to Processes tab and select last selected application.

FYI, the game play in my primary monitor while the original windows taskbar in my second monitor.

This is still a problem, 1.5 years later, with DF 7.2 and Windows 10.

I'm using NoMousy and WindowedBorderlessGaming with a DX app, and anytime I move the in-app mouse low enough, the Task bar for that monitor pops up in front of the app. I have no way to force it to open behind.

Apparently now in addition to NoMousy I also need a utility app named NoTaskbar. /sigh Wouldn't it be awesome if the functionality of BOTH those utilities was built into DisplayFusion?

At this point, outside of snapping to a monitor and segmenting the taskbar, DF is doing very, very little for me.

More information:

I used CCC and moved the Windows Taskbar to the left monitor only, then used DisplayFusion to create additional Taskbars on center/right monitors. Then I went and created a Compatibility entry for the app I'm using, and enabled "Disable DisplayFusion Taskbars while this application is running".

It had absolutely no effect.

I also attempted to use the "Force DisplayFusion to treat this as a full screen application" switch.

Also - no effect.

Closing WindowedBorderlessGaming and re-testing both switches proved fruitless, the problem remained.

Seems like more than a few bugs remain in DF. If at some point you want to debug and patch this stuff up, I'd be glad to help test. In the meantime - you may want to add them to your Windows 10 issues list, as I can confirm they exist.

Download the latest Beta (7.3 Beta 2), it fixed the taskbar issue for me.

Did that last night, doesn't work.

The only real solution I found was to unload DisplayFusion, or toggle off it's taskbars manually every time. Not much of a solution I know, but the software features aren't working as designed.

So I still never found a fix in displayfusion for this.
I still use the workaround taskbar.exe that hides the taskbar when in a full window mode application.

I don't think the issue is necessarily in displayfusion but the original windows taskbar appears over the application and no the display fusion taskbar.

The Display Fusion Taskbar(s) will also appear *over* the application, even if you setup compatibility mode to treat the app as fullscreen. And currently the same compatibility switch to toggle those taskbars off when the app launches doesn't work for me either.

DF is really in a bad way for me right now with Windows 10. Considering uninstalling it until things are smoothed out.

Beta 3 is what I've been using for the last 24 hours. It's way buggier than Beta 2 was, still has a large number of problems. I listed several in another topic. Certainly no fix for this problem.

Sorry using this older one but problem is still around on Win7 df 7.3.2 . I have used the force as full screen on 2 different games with no effect. World of Warships and Dragon Age Origins both of which did not show in log as full screen.

Date for logs is 23:40 on 11/28/15

Sorry using this older one but problem is still around on Win7 df 7.3.2 . I have used the force as full screen on 2 different games with no effect. World of Warships and Dragon Age Origins both of which did not show in log as full screen.

Date for logs is 23:40 on 11/28/15

Windows Taskbar and DF taskbar are always active in windowed full screen games. specifically World of Warships and Dragon Age Origins. I have 4 monitors with 3 setup in Nvidia Surround so the 4th monitor I use as my desktop for browser and teamspeak in order to keep game active and use the 4th most games have to be run in windowed mode. This is why I bought DF to control taskbar on 4th monitor. I now use Windowed Borderless gaming product for the games that dont support this mode.

FullScreen Applications [1]

0x00040b24 ~ {X=0,Y=0,Width=7680,Height=1080} ~ CompatibilityRule ~ "World of Warships" ~ "App" ~ "D:\Games\World_of_Warships\WorldOfWarships.exe"

This is from the compatibility rule i made without that they are not detected in log as fullscreen . With the rule the windows taskbar/middle monitor of 3 is not acting as if the the game is full screen(that is it will pop up when mouse goes there) but the DF taskbars on the other monitors are hidden.

Thanks Keith for you always timely and helpful support.

Please forward this to your manager.

Hello, after doing the fix that you have to disable the windows taskbar and use display fusion task bars only, the windows button on all my taskbars does nothing. This is on windows 10. The windows key on my keyboard still works to bring up the start menu though.

Thanks

Hey just a thought, is there a way to disable "always on top" for the windows taskbar using scripts? that would theoretically fix the problem, just have it disabled when certain .exe are open or hot key it.

Sorry to bring this back up but I just got triple monitor Nvidia Surround setup this week and have been searching for answers to this all day. Starting to think it's not possible. Basically, any game I run in windowless fullscreen plays on the center monitor fine, either the DF taskbar shows or a blank (what I presume to be Windows fullscreen taskbar shows). In games like SC2 and LoL that means I can't scroll on the bottom of the screen. Even if I set the Windows taskbar to autohide, when I go to scroll down it pops up of course.

I just bought DisplayFusion today and I'm really hoping I can find a way to fix this eventually. I've tried solutions in 20+ threads. As it stands, it looks like I'm going to be switching between Surround and regular 3 monitor mode when I want to play single monitor games :-/.

Hi Lumonaut, you're probably having the same problem as me and some others. See this topic

Are you using Windows 10? As I think it's an issue with Windows 10's surround mode and not properly handling the taskbar. Hopefully the DF team can fix this, but I think it may be a Windows 10 (Microsoft)/Nvidia issue.

Sounds like exactly my issue. Yes I'm on Windows 10. I so hope this can get fixed, either by Nvidia or DF, it's the only thing holding this setup back!