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Until today when an application was minimized its icon was still on the Taskbar. To return focus to the program I would simply click the icon on the Taskbar.
Today, minimized applications now appear as minimized windows taking up desktop space. The Taskbar functionality has not changed. (See below.)
Why are minimized apps now showing as a small window on the desktop? More importantly, how does one restore things where just the Taskbar icon represents the application?
Richard Ogg
Posted 2013-08-26T17:47:08.880
Reputation: 46
What have you tried already to rectify it (reboots, System Restore, etc.)? Have you done any customization to the shell using 3rd party utilities? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-08-26T17:56:14.117
Have you tried right clicking on the window frame and manually selecting minimize just to see if that works? – Grant – 2013-08-26T18:09:44.683
I've not changed anything in attempt to fix, and a reboot will need to wait for some completed work first.
Right-clicking on the frame does not give me a pop-up menu. Left-click on the icon gives the standard pop-up and minimizes the same. – Richard Ogg – 2013-08-26T18:14:16.097
1I have seen this behavior when
Explorer.exegets out of whack, I bet a restart will fix it too. If it persists after a reboot please update the question with that info. – Scott Chamberlain – 2013-08-26T18:30:09.650Thanks, Scott. In reality, one should always reboot before posting problems on sites such as this. It appears a reboot fixed it. (It still seems very weird - a flashback to yesteryear....) – Richard Ogg – 2013-08-27T21:20:10.313
I had a similar issue and didn't want to reboot the machine. Restarting explorer.exe using the task manager worked for me. – Parakram Majumdar – 2013-10-21T06:36:38.273