With the latest Windows 10 update, sometimes the active window does not draw on top of other windows. It is as if certain windows get stuck in a weird priority mode, like "always on top" or "always on bottom". If I drag such a window around my screen, then it will go overtop some windows and underneath other windows. I have not been able to figure out a pattern to what causes this, or what windows it affects. This issue only occurs when DisplayFusion is running.

I've seen this a few times recently on WIn 7 64-bit as well, but only with DF running as it now always is.. Sometimes similarly the titlebarbuttons for one window get drawn always on top of everything, and when that window (if it is one of these weird ones that sticks to the back) is moved around then the titlebarbuttons move around independently on top of the other windows. In the back of my mind I've been wondering if this has something to do with windows being run elevated (as in run-as-administrator) among windows that are not, since I run a mixture of these, but have been unable to isolate anything defining about this.

Attaching troubleshooting log.

Here is my file. This has happened only 3-4 times, and not in the past few days. But it has happened.

Never had the taskbars set except on the bottom (as far as I know barring a glitch when first setting things up).

I still have this issue on 8.0 beta 1.

I've been running Beta 8.1 and have not seen the problem in quite a while (Win 7 64). At first I was running the current release version (7.3.1) but then switched to the Beta, and I cannot remember whether the problem here happened after the switch or before. I think it likely it happed only before the switch for me on Win 7, and until now I'd forgotten about the change in the release of DF I was using.

Thanks a lot! You're the man!

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have applied the settings, will test it out for some time. But it seems OK so far. Been using them for like an hour or two.

Keith, I haven't seen the problem for quite some time now, so I am not sure that I can help you trouble-shoot this. If the problem comes back for me I'll try these settings, but otherwise things are stable and working on my Win7 system. As it is I have nothing to report on this issue.

hallo again, been working flawlessly since I changed the settings, havent even rebooted since I last replied. Seems to be a workaround! Dont even know the difference from before so I guess the settings doesnt do much

I was having this issue as well, but it appears to be fixed with the tooltips turned off.

Disabling tooltips worked fine for me for a few hours, but somehow I'm encountering the issue again now (with tooltips still disabled).

Edit: restarting DisplayFusion made the issue go away again.

Disabling window previews *and* thumbnail previews seems to prevent the issue so far. Disabling only thumbnail previews was not as effective for me.

Hi, sorry for the super late response. It seems that having no topmost calls does prevent the issue from occurring.

Thanks a ton, Keith! The advanced settings will work fine with my setup for the time being.

Holy shit.

I've been struggling with this for more than a year and finally found the solution.

Thank you, Keith. Thank you so much.