NOT full screen, the local taskbar is present. The local taskbar doesn't reappear when the full screen Remote Desktop window loses focus even if Remote Desktop is the only open application on the computer. It isn't the use of Webex that is the problem. But, if I just click my Monitor 2, causing Remote Desktop on Monitor 1 to 'lose focus', all is fine. If I 'minimize' the Remote Desktop on my computer, it causes the vendor to lose mouse/keyboard in their Webex session. We do not permit outsiders from accessing our internal systems directly. When working with vendors, I frequently use Webex in the external computer (the one through Remote Desktop) and share that screen with the vendor. Yes, I already know that I can show the same taskbar on both monitors,īut that isn't the real intent of my question. When in Remoteĭesktop "full screen" on Monitor 1, I used to be able to see the local taskbar on Monitor 1 when clicking anything on Monitor 2, thereby causing Remote Desktop to lose focus.
I just got a new computer and this used to work on the previous one, which was Windows 7. I have the same issue and it is very frustrating. Now I am able to have Hangouts open and use RDP at the same time without a Taskbar issue. I went into Google Hangouts settings and disabled "always on top" and Just thought i would share this with you in case you have any luck with your taskbar too.įINAL EDIT: I wanted update. It's a pretty bad work around for me (just need to turn off hangouts while i'm RDPing or using any full screen apps) but at least i can access the taskbar now.
There must have been something in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update that's changed the way how the taskbar overlays work and so seems to be causing it. I then decided to close one item at a time until i found the culprit, and for me it was Hangouts that was causing this behaviour. Reading his suggestion, i decided to close every application i had on my taskbar and lo and behold, my taskbar stopped overlaying on top of any full screen applications, RDP included. That limits how many things load there, and lessens how many programs can raise the MustBeSeen flag. Once you clear the MustBeSeen flag by addressing the program, the taskbar will hide again.Īs a best practice suggestion, hit Ctrl+Shift+Escape and disable anything on the Startup tab you don't need autorunning. Icon near the clock in the notification area. Typically this is a program that needs your attention, like antivirus or backup program that has some message it's waiting to tell you. " Thanks Tony, that means a program has raised the MustBeSeen system flag. The answer on the first link by " Shawn 'Cmdr' Keene "
This particular post in particular got me thinking While trying to figure out what on earth is going on since the new anniversary update, i've stumbled across a few pages which seems to have similar issues, For note sake, my RDP client computer is an Intel and my Host is an AMD / NVIDIA board. This almost leads me to believe the taskbar issues when running an RDP session might be related to either the Host's Taskbar or even now, maybe the RDP desktop session isn't loading properly because of the dpc watchdog violation issue with the GPU drivers.Īre you using an AMD or Nvidia type motherboard or an Intel. Upon reboot of the host the taskbar settings reverts to the default, always on and on the bottom. Marked on and I have to turn it off and back on to get it to hide again. Doing the same, eventually the Host Taskbar stops hiding and when I go to settings the Auto Hide tick is still As a workaround I moved my Host computers taskbar to the top with autohide ticked on. I wonder if you have any GPU relatedĮrrors in your event logs or if you have received a sudden bluescreen reboot of the host while in a RDP session.Īlso, regarding Minimizing and and restore the RDP session. I am not sure if this has anything to do with the RDP issues or my NVIDIA GPU drivers. I also get the occasional blue screen of death and a dpc watchdog violation and forced restart when using RDP.