Task bar: Completely broken!

[sesselpupser]

So my Task bar is being very strange.

First of all, I should point out I'm using Nvidia Surround, which I suspect is the cause of my problems.

The symptoms:

- Task bar no longer auto hides. This started when I turned on 'confine task bar to one display only'.

- Start menu's right half is black. Not a big deal but it's quite ugly and clearly broken.

- Notification area (the little arrow on the right hand side (or bottom, if you have the TB on the side of your monitor))'s pop-up icon grid appears in a completely random place almost every day. Nothing seems to fix it; locking, unlocking, moving and resizing the TB have no effect. Well, no, moving the task bar has an effect, but it just changes where the grid will appear. This is seriously annoying because it means I have to look around all over the place for the menu when it pops up because sometimes it blends in with my background!

- Sometimes when I exit a fullscreen game, if I have the TB locked it'll appear at random in the wrong place.

If I turn on TB spanning in the Nvidia control panel, auto hiding works, the Start menu is fixed again and, for the first time ever, the notification area pop up is in the right place... But I bet that'll change back to being broken again pretty soon.


Any ideas please? I kind of want everything (TB and desktop icons) on my centre monitor, hence why I'm bothering with this.

 

[NissanSkylineN1]

Doesn't Windows do the same thing as Nvidia Surround with its own display screen thingy? Whe use the Nvidia surround?


Have you tried rebooting? Could it be because of resolution scaling and changing when opening and closing programs?

 

[sesselpupser]

Doesn't Windows do the same thing as Nvidia Surround with its own display screen thingy? Whe use the Nvidia surround?


Have you tried rebooting? Could it be because of resolution scaling and changing when opening and closing programs?

I thought I was being monumentally stupid for a while there but as it turns out, Windows won't let you play games on three monitors, Surround will, so not using it isn't an option unfortunately.

I've tried rebooting, it made no difference. I think the out-of-place pop up icon window thing is because of resolution switching throwing it out, but the rest, I have no idea. I wonder if it's because I only had Windows Control Panel set to use one monitor? I've now got it set to extend the desktop across all three, I'm going to try it with Surround now and see if that makes it work or whatever.