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.

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