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Trakatran
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Hi,
I have Windows 10 and Nvidia Surround active card with 3 monitors. When I play a game with borderless window option, the windows taskbar is always on top, bu if I close first DisplayFusion, never happen. Please fix this, is very annoying.

Thanks you.
Aug 5, 2016  • #1
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
If you just disable the DisplayFusion taskbar feature before starting the game, does that also fix it? Or is the only solution to exit DisplayFusion completely?
Aug 5, 2016  • #2
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Trakatran
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if you disable the display fusion taskbar everithing is ok, no taskbar over borderless games.
Aug 9, 2016  • #3
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SaiBork
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I can confirm that I have this issue as well.
When using proper fullscreen the taskbar does hide behind it, but there are certain programs that say they run full screen, but actually do a borderless window over all three screens.

Would be great if this could be sorted.
Aug 9, 2016  • #4
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
We'll definitely look into this. In the meantime, if you create a Compatibility rule (Settings > Compatibility) for the affected games (you can put multiple game EXEs in, like this: *game1.exe|*game2.exe, or just specify your whole games directory like this: C:\games\*), in the rule, you can use the "Disable multi-monitor taskbars" option to have DisplayFusion automatically disable the taskbars when the games are running.
Aug 19, 2016  • #5
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SaiBork
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The problems is that it's with all borderless windows, so it's not just affecting games, but also browsers and mediaplayers.

So if in Chrome, I tell Youtube to play full screen, it does this borderless and I get the taskbar on top and I can't use the controls.

As I almost always have a browser window open, it would mean I might as well have the taskbar option turned off.
Aug 19, 2016  • #6
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Ok, I'd like to do some more testing on this here. Could you guys attach a copy of your troubleshooting info? Here are the steps:
  • Open the Settings > Troubleshooting tab
  • Click the "Copy to Clipboard" button
  • Paste the text into a text file (please don't paste the text directly into your reply, the formatting gets garbled and makes it difficult to parse)
  • Reply with the file attached
Aug 23, 2016  • #7
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Trakatran
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Here it is.
• Attachment [protected]: troubleshoting.txt [90,008 bytes]
Aug 23, 2016  • #8
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SaiBork
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Please see attached.

One thing I'd like to mentioned (haven't continued this test), but while the taskbar is having these issues. If you have the program open, then disable the multi-taskbar option to use only the windows taskbar it seems to still cause the same problem. So I am forced to close the open application and then start it again with the multi-taskbar option already disabled.
• Attachment [protected]: troubleshooting_multi_taskbar.txt [90,451 bytes]
Aug 23, 2016  • #9
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SaiBork
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Trakatran, can you confirm whether or not you installed the anniversary edition of Windows 10? I think this might be causing the problem. I have done some additional testing and notice that the taskbar also stays active with borderless full screen windows if you have another application using always on top. While with another pc that I have here, which isn't updated to the anniversary edition, but also uses nvidia gpu (not surround though), I dont have this issue. Using borderless window with some other application always on top, just shows that application on top of the active window and the taskbar goes behind the active window as it should.
Aug 24, 2016  • #10
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Trakatran
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I have the issue before install the anniversary edition.
Aug 25, 2016  • #11
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Lumonaut
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Exact same problem. I'm on Windows 10 Pro, don't know if that's anniversary edition.
Aug 27, 2016  • #12
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Necropants
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Just chiming in that I have this exact same problem.

Windows 10 Pro 64x Anniversary
Sep 5, 2016  • #13
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JodyG
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Exact problem here too after the Windows 10 anniversary update. Running vmWare View Client in Full Screen leaves the primary task bar visible (on top of View client) but secondary task bar hides behind View client as it should.
Sep 5, 2016  • #14
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Trakatran
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I have more information. Windows borderless do the same effect if you check the "always on top" icon even you haven't the taskbars activated.
Sep 23, 2016  • #15
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Yeah, it's definitely a Windows 10 bug that's triggered by having a window topmost (the DF taskbars are topmost). If you guys enable the Advanced Setting in the attached screenshot, does that make any difference?
• Attachment: Advanced Settings - SetWindowPos.jpg [153,178 bytes]
Advanced Settings - SetWindowPos.jpg
Advanced Settings - SetWindowPos.jpg
Sep 23, 2016  • #16
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SaiBork
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Hi Keith,

I have just tried this, but the center bar is still there. Do you guys think you can fix this, or do we really need Microsoft to fix it. If the latter, I'm afraid this will never get sorted :(
Sep 25, 2016  • #17
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Unfortunately it doesn't look likely that it's something we can fix from our end. I've seen similar reports of things like this from people not running DisplayFusion as well :(

If we are able to work around it though, we'll definitely post an update!
Sep 26, 2016  • #18
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secretspystuff
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When i disabled "removing from Windows Taskbar (this appliction only)" under compatibility settings it solved this issue for me with VLC.
Nov 23, 2016  • #19
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
We have a bit of a lead on this issue that we're following. With any luck, we might have this fixed up for the next version of DF :)
Nov 24, 2016  • #20
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Lumonaut
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Quote:
We have a bit of a lead on this issue that we're following. With any luck, we might have this fixed up for the next version of DF :)

Hey! I was just wondering if this had been fixed and what settings I should adjust if it was in any updates. Still having this issue. Thanks!
Feb 2, 2017  • #21
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
We haven't had a chance to fix it up yet, but on the Settings > Compatibility tab, you can add a rule for the affected application, and enable the "Force DisplayFusion to treat this application as full screen" option in the rule, to work around this issue.

Hope that helps!
Feb 2, 2017  • #22
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Lumonaut
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Quote:
We haven't had a chance to fix it up yet, but on the Settings > Compatibility tab, you can add a rule for the affected application, and enable the "Force DisplayFusion to treat this application as full screen" option in the rule, to work around this issue.

Hope that helps!


Appreciate the response, but just for the record, I tried this tonight and it doesn't work for me. I get what is presumably the Windows task bar still, because I get just a single taskbar on my middle monitor that won't go away. Thanks for your quick responses and looking into this still though!
Feb 3, 2017 (modified Feb 3, 2017)  • #23
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Ok, if you also enable the "disable removing from Windows Taskbar (this appliction only)" option in the Compatibility rule, does that help?
Feb 3, 2017  • #24
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