
Please feel free to leave your comment below for any questions, thanks. Hope you can get your taskbar work again with the help of this post. Type Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth in the command prompt window. So if Fix 1 & 2 unluckily did not help you, try this fix please.įollow step 1-3 of Fix 2 to run command prompt as administrator. Run DISM Image Management CommandĪs some users reported, run DISM(Deployment Image Servicing and Management ) Image Management Command fix the error on their Windows 10. Type sfc /scannow on the command prompt window showing up to you. Then scroll down on System32 folder to find and right-click on cmd.exe.Ĭhoose Run as administrator and click Yes when prompted by User Account Control. Then type explorer in the pop-up box and click OK. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc at the same time to open Task Manager. Run System File Checker to repair Windows Files 1) Try to access Taskbar on your Windows 10 now.įix 2. Now your Windows Explorer will start again. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc at the same time to open Task Manager. Restart Windows Explorer in Task Manager 1) It’s such an annoying problem though, you still can solve it with the tried-and-true fixes we’re going to show you.įix 1. If taskbar frozen, you just cannot use it at all, no start menu, no icon… And also when you use some shortcut like Windows + X or Windows + R, your Windows 10 won’t respond. Taskbar frozen is one of the many issues on Windows 10. With my application causing the maximize to park my border right on the bottom of the screen, I would have been generating WM_NCMOUSEMOVE events with the MINMAXINFO left alone, I would have been generating WM_MOUSEMOVE.Since Windows 10 is more and more widely used, more and more problems on the system occur as users reported. It's possible that the detection for popping up an "autohidden" taskbar is hooked into the mechanism for handling WM_MOUSEMOVE messages, and not for WM_NCMOUSEMOVE.

If I comment out that code and don't modify the MINMAXINFO structure, the Auto-hide works.Īs to why, I'm not entirely sure.

That clears ALL the Policy settings for Taskbar and Notification area and brings back the Pin to Taskbar right-click menu option. Here are the contents of the enclosed registry fix. Not sure why this was done it was written by a predecessor. Download taskbar-policies-remove-all.zip, extract the REG file to a folder, and double-click to run it. My application was setting that to 0,0, and the max height and width to exactly the screen resolution size (not inflated). It also set the ptMaxPosition (point that the window origin is set to when maximized) to -7, -7. That makes sense in that when maximized, it pushes the borders of the window beyond the visible part of the screen. The values that were in the record were inflated by 7 (border width) the screen pixel resolution. My application was handling the WM_GETMINMAXINFO message, and was overriding the values in the parameter MINMAXINFO record.
