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After running Win 7 for some unknown period of time, the taskbar icon highlight starts to stick (video demo here: http://screencast.com/t/l5LhJ2uM). If I restart or kill explorer.exe and relaunch, it goes away.
Any idea what might be causing this?
2009 + 5 this is STILL happening. – madprops – 2014-09-19T16:58:58.577
2009 + 7 says hi. – riv – 2016-01-31T12:38:48.730
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1It doesn't seem to be directly related to system uptime or session age. I recently had a 100+ day session on my Windows 7 (no logouts, standbys, hibernations etc.) and this bug never appeared. I rebooted my system today, and started encountering the problem after just a few hours. – Daniel Saner – 2016-12-07T22:13:53.907
1Alright, so clearly Microsoft never got around to fixing this in Windows 7... Anyone know if it's fixed in Win8? I haven't installed it yet. – Ricket – 2012-10-09T04:03:57.857
6I have Windows 8.1 and this issue still isn't resolved. It's incredibly annoying. – Kale Muscarella – 2013-10-10T19:20:27.017
3Aha! So it's not just on my machine! Sometimes I wonder if Windows was ever designed to be powered on for more than short periods of time. – Camilo Martin – 2013-11-17T12:01:00.470
I don’t recall it ever happening before, but now it seems to be happening all the time. It happens every few seconds and/or window operations and the current batch of fixes (rebooting, right-clicking, etc.) are all just temporary and it reappears moments later. In addition to the highlight, the tooltip also gets stuck, and the buttons all behave incorrectly (as though the mouse/keyboard are stuck). Why the hell has Microsoft not fixed this damned annoying problem after all this time‽‽‽ – Synetech – 2014-02-25T04:34:33.787
For me it behaves like this: If it got stuck and you solve it by shift+right clicking, it quickly gets stuck again. If I restart explorer, it takes some more time again to get it stuck, but still faster than rebooting my whole PC. Looks like some monkeys programmed that. – Ray – 2014-04-22T09:29:22.217