After my upgrade to windows 11, clicking on an icon on the taskbar does not display the program on front. Clicking on the popup above it, bring it on front. That is annoying when there is only one screen open from that program to move over again.
In windows 10 there was a solution for that, but that is not available in windows 11
Clicking Icon on Taskbar Does Not Switch to Program
Does anybody knows a solution for this? Thank you.
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This might be the most annoying issue I was encountering on Windows 11. When Visual Studio 2022 is running the debugger, the Windows taskbar becomes unresponsive and requires you to click multiple times to get the window to show.
The current fix I've found was to disable "Enable Diagnostic Tools while debugging" via the Tools -> Options dialog.
There're few reports that it only occurs with VS 2022 opened, so with me. Temporary workaround is clicking on empty taskbar space, it helps.
3Another workaround: When you hover over the open programs on the taskbar, you can right click on the application windows and restore.
And Thanks @Niksr for your workaround
It works fine here - both Windows 11 systems (Production and Insider). Click on the task bar icon and the program opens right up.
Two things to try:
(A) DISM and SFC.
(1) Open cmd.exe with Run as Administrator.
(2) DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /StartComponentCleanup
(3) DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth
(4) SFC /SCANNOW
(5) Restart when all the above is complete and test.
(B) You had done a upgrade from (presumably) Windows 10. So if DISM/SFC does not help, consider a Windows 11 Repair Install
Work through this, make a USB Key and then when the link and screen closes, open the USB Key with File Explorer and run Setup.exe on the USB Key.
This starts the repair process and select (to begin with) Keep Apps and Keep File (that is, Keep Everything).
Hopefully one of the two approaches above will fix your issue. As I note, all well here.
(C) Reinstall Windows
If Repair does not work then you must back up and reinstall Windows. What has likely happened is a USER profile error or damage. Replacing a damaged USER profile is complicated and it is just as fast to back up and reinstall.
Profile damage can happen to any computer.
7see microsoft answer here
"This issue is caused by an interaction between the WebView2 component used by Visual Studio and the Windows 11 taskbar. The Windows 11 taskbar team is currently actively investigating.
Update: the Windows 11 taskbar team has a fix, which makes the taskbar resilient to the issue triggered by WebView2, but it is uncertain when that fix will be released. However, the WebView2 team also has a fix so that WebView2 won’t trigger the problem in the first place. We expect that fix to be rolled out in the next stable WebView2 release in early March. We will provide further information here when that fix is available (for most people, their WebView2 installation should update automatically when the new release rolls out)."
