Since the upgrade to V4.1 I am finding that I have 2 problems:

1) I lose the icons on the taskbar that indicate that a program has been opened. I need to go into Task Manager and click on the programme that was lost in order to get it to Restore. Once it is restored, the icon appears back on the taskbar. If I just open a new instance of the programme then I only get one icon in the taskbar but Task Manager shows two instances;
2) Some programmes move between my triple monitor setup. I may minimise a window on monitor 3, and when it is re-opened it is on monitor 2.

Are these known/common problems?

I am having the same issues regarding icons and a few more:

1) If I drag the mouse over desktop shortcut icons, without clicking, the icon is highlighted and the highlight is never released. Right now, all 15 desktop shortcuts are 'highlighed'

2) Tray icons (lower right-hand side) are missing. The space is still there, however nothing is displayed.

3) hovering the mouse over a tray icon (visible or not, displays a single white line character directly above the bar

4) running application icons (lower left-hand side) some of them only have a blank block displayed. hovering over all of these icons (blank and non blank, does display an image of the screen represented by the icon,

The tray icons on the right-side monitor are all still displayed.

attached to this is how the desktop shortcut icons look

i will see what i can do. need to reboot my pc to 'reset' everything, have a call in a few minutes so i need to wait until after then.

I can't easily remote into the machine that is/was having the problem. I also haven't seen the issue in the last couple of days. I normally put the machine in hibernate rather than rebooting but a BSOD from some dodgy bluetooth drivers forced a reboot. It could be that the reboot has fixed the issue.

It is a desktop machine and so for me it is not the monitor disconnect that caused the issue.

If I find more information then I will post back, I know that I haven't given you anything to go on yet - sorry!

I did remote in last night and again this morning. Came in and the same issues occurred with a slight difference. All of the desktop shortcuts were not visible with the exception of the caption. Every icon on the left-hand side was greyed out. about the same number of icons in the tray were invisible.

The issue with the Tray Icons (lower right-hand side) and the Desktop Shortcuts occurred a few minutes ago while I stepped away. This PC was rebooted this AM and I did not remote into it since the reboot. A log file has been sent. At this time, all running application icons (lower left-hand side) are displayed properly.

Right-clicking a Desktop Short displays an empty option dialog (see attached), that options show up as you move your mouse over it.

Right-clicking, dragging the mouse until you see Delete, clicking Delete, does not work. Clicking properties displays an empty dialog and then it immediately closes.

Double-clicking one of these Desktop Shortcuts does invoke the associated application.

Even though the running application icons are all displayed properly, right-clicking them displays empty dialogs

Do you have a download of the previous version? I have rebooted again today and the problem just started happening again. Would love to help trouble shoot but the issues are getting in the way of work.

Thank you. i usually save all the versions of the tools i use. I will install this. This will let me know if the issues are caused by the update or from a different cause.

Thank you for the prompt response. 4.0.1 installed. I will let you know tomorrow if the problems occur again. I will have a chance to Remote in later today, though that is not the only cause of the errors I have been seeing the past few days.

I have been running 4.01 for over a day now. I have remoted to the PC several times last night, this morning and this evening. Everything is working fine. I think it is safe to say that DF was causing the issues and not any of the 2 other apps I updated around the same time.

Happy to help test out anything you come up with.

Hi. I just wanted to add a 'me too' to #1 above. I came to the forums to see if this had been reported, and found it here. I downgraded to 4.0.1 to work-around the issue for now. One thing I do like, is the auto-update mechanism has a "skip this version" button when prompting to upgrade to 4.1-- that's a nice feature, and hopefully the new release(4.1.1?) will properly pop up as soon as it's available.

Thanks.

I don't have time today to do this, but I'll reply with some info on my setup/programs/behavior:

1. I run 4 monitors in a physical layout resembling a + sign; left screen has Outlook pinned, top screen has Chrome+Firefox pinned, right screen has OneNote and an internal C# app pinned; Bottom center screen is primary monitor, using Windows taskbar versus DisplayFusion. I mention pinning, as combining the pins is one of the new features in 4.1, so it could be related.

2. I have these main apps running daily:
a. Visual Studio 2010(multiple) on primary
b. Visual Studio 2008(multiple) on primary
c. Outlook on left
d. Trillian on left
e. Misc. RDP connections on primary, top, and right(varies)
f. OneNote mostly always on right
g. Chrome on top
h. Windows Explorer windows, mostly on primary

3. I connect via RDP to this workstation every morning from my Android phone using Jump(best RDP app I could find; works pretty well)-- this screws up my windows, and I use Windows Layout Manager from Stefan Didak(http://www.stefandidak.com/category/software/windows-software/wilma/) to put things back to their appropriate monitors(this uses win32 MoveWindow calls, I believe). This behavior may trigger it.

I experience the disappearing taskbar items on my non-primary monitors once I physically get to my workstation in the morning(after the RDP session is disconnected).

I hope some of this info can be of help. Thanks.

I am having this same issue. The taskbar slows down everything. The icons disappear and the taskbar doesn't respond for about 15 seconds. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the latest version. I then tried installing version 4.0.1. I have the same problem with this version. This all started with the upgrade to v.4. Is there a previous version that I can try? Right now, I can't even use Display Fusion because it is so slow and cumbersome.

I have been having general performance issues on my computer as of late(past few weeks)-- I didn't think of it as being Display Fusion related, however... It's overall interactive performance issues(windows locking up and such), and not taskbar specific...

OK, I just had a lockup, and it definitely was the taskbar-- I couldn't switch to any of my programs using the taskbar. I also couldn't hit the start button with the mouse or the keyboard. I switched into a program that was displayed, and it did seem responsive... After a few seconds(3-5), all my actions were processed all at once(message queue suddenly got processed after blocking for some reason?). So maybe it is DisplayFusion specific...

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Derek

I have this problem as well. Windows 8 RTM, DisplayFusion 4.1.

I have a 3-monitor setup, nvidia graphics card.

After many hours of use (sometimes sooner), the weirdness happens. Mousing over icons in the taskbar (I use the windows taskbar, not the displayfusion one) causes them to light up, but the highlight does not disappear upon mouseout. The icons are often replaced with generic icons. The clock gets corrupted (disappears or flickers) as well.

I understand the value of getting you guys a list of steps to duplicate the issue but I haven't been able to get it to happen "on purpose" and I can't figure out what I am doing that triggers it, or if it's the sort of thing that happens over time, like memory use increasing or something like that.

I can always fix it by bringing up the taskbar with CTRL SHIFT ESC, killing the explorer.exe shell, and launching a new one. Then I'm good for another several hours. If I close displayfusion, the problem does not arise at all.

I do make RDP connections, but outbound only.

As suggested, I have enabled debug logging and hope to help get to the bottom of this.

Programs I have running, if it helps:

• Chrome
• Visual Studio 2012
• Office 2013 Preview
• LinqPad
• SyncBackPro
• Steam
• Trillian
• Logitech Gaming Software 8.30
• Performance Mouse MX Whatever
• Dropbox
• IIS Express (on occasion)
• Monitor Off Utility

I sent you guys a log file! Hope it helps!

I am not running SyncBackPro.

I haven't seen the issue with 4.0.1 lately-- I haven't re-upgraded to the latest to try it. i'm attaching a text file with the output from the troubleshooting page, with personal info xxx'd out.

I have already disabled it and haven't experienced the problem! Nice catch.

Sorry for the delayed response, I have now gotten around to enabling the debug and have attached the log files.

The issue I had was that Firefox vanished from one of the monitors that was running Display Fusion. In order to get it back I had to open Task Manager and click on the instance that had vanished (I had two instances running). It then re-appeared on my main monitor. The log file is captured directly after that happened.

I don't have SyncBack running on my system (as far as I know), but here is a list of running programs:

Opera running the NetDania ChartStation Java applet
Log MX
Firefox (two instances)
Flash Develop
Netbeans
Windows Explorer
Programmers Notepad 2
MySQL Workbench
Tortoise HG

Then in the System tray I have:

Outlook
Cobian backup
Resoph Notes
Gladinet Clould Desktop (but that is new and after the problems started)
Pageant
Go Contact Sync
ICloud
KCast
Avast

When I get time I will disable all other programs in startup and try to recreate the issue. It does seem to be very intermittent though and I don't have a way to reproduce it reliably.

Keith, was the source of the problem possibly present in other programs beyond just SyncBack Pro? I don't run SyncBack Pro, but if the fix is potentially more broad, I'll give the new version a try.

Thanks.