Sidebar and Taskbar fight for dominance - very annoying Vista bug!

[Joel]

Hi

Here's something that should have been spotted in QA. If your taskbar is
set to auto-hide, and your sidebar is set to "always on top", what happens
when you move the focus to the taskbar (and it pops up)? Well, the behaviour
(in Vista Home Premium and Vista Business, anyway) is very inconsistent.
Sometimes the sidebar gets priority, and other times the taskbar gets
priority. The answer is clear: If the sidebar gets priority, then it
clumsily overlaps the System Tray, so the taskbar should always get priority
to resolve this problem.

An easy fix for SP1, surely?


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[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

If I understand it correctly, this is a z-order issue, and in one way or
another it has existed for some time in previous versions of Windows. The
problem is in how the system determines what part of the desktop has the
primary focus. Certain things, such as the old 'show desktop' icon, confuse
this order, and once this happens certain oddities arise. The one you
mention may be one of them, another example is popups appearing behind the
taskbar instead of in front of it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Joel" <Joel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AE347968-A036-4C00-975D-56D88F72063D@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> Here's something that should have been spotted in QA. If your taskbar is
> set to auto-hide, and your sidebar is set to "always on top", what happens
> when you move the focus to the taskbar (and it pops up)? Well, the
> behaviour
> (in Vista Home Premium and Vista Business, anyway) is very inconsistent.
> Sometimes the sidebar gets priority, and other times the taskbar gets
> priority. The answer is clear: If the sidebar gets priority, then it
> clumsily overlaps the System Tray, so the taskbar should always get
> priority
> to resolve this problem.
>
> An easy fix for SP1, surely?
>
>
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[Thai Berry \(U.S.\)]

yet after 5 years and billions of dollars vista still sucks with this same
problems...

Vista seems to have changed 1000 things that were better off the way they
were in XP,
and did not address any real problem the platform had..

how sad... All the developers had to do was go to the "windows annoyances"
site.. and start fixing!

Oh I forget... "No see - no hear - no speak" is the motto of the vista
developers...(and the fanboys too)



"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:OeL6ZvZCIHA.3916@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> If I understand it correctly, this is a z-order issue, and in one way or
> another it has existed for some time in previous versions of Windows. The
> problem is in how the system determines what part of the desktop has the
> primary focus. Certain things, such as the old 'show desktop' icon,
> confuse this order, and once this happens certain oddities arise. The one
> you mention may be one of them, another example is popups appearing behind
> the taskbar instead of in front of it.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Joel" <Joel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AE347968-A036-4C00-975D-56D88F72063D@microsoft.com...
>> Hi
>>
>> Here's something that should have been spotted in QA. If your taskbar is
>> set to auto-hide, and your sidebar is set to "always on top", what
>> happens
>> when you move the focus to the taskbar (and it pops up)? Well, the
>> behaviour
>> (in Vista Home Premium and Vista Business, anyway) is very inconsistent.
>> Sometimes the sidebar gets priority, and other times the taskbar gets
>> priority. The answer is clear: If the sidebar gets priority, then it
>> clumsily overlaps the System Tray, so the taskbar should always get
>> priority
>> to resolve this problem.
>>
>> An easy fix for SP1, surely?
>>
>>
>> ----------------
>> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
>> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
>> "I
>> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
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>> then
>> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>>
>> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...63d&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
>