Windows 10: Cant click on taskbar/start menu

Discus and support Cant click on taskbar/start menu in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; I cannot click on my taskbar, no right click either. I can click on my desktop icons and open them, but then i cant click on anything in the folders.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/DTodts, Aug 11, 2020.

  1. /U/DTODTS
    /u/DTodts Win User

    Cant click on taskbar/start menu


    I cannot click on my taskbar, no right click either. I can click on my desktop icons and open them, but then i cant click on anything in the folders. Sometimes it swaps, like i can click on taskbar but not desktop. My mouse also sometimes randomly does a middlemouse button press even though im not even touching it. I have updated windows, restarted windows explorer, reinstalled my mouse drivers and rebooted my pc a few times to no avail. I have no idea what caused this and I have no idea how to fix this. Any help would be appreciated!

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    /u/DTodts, Aug 11, 2020
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  2. DREAMING VOID
    Dreaming Void Win User

    Taskbar hides and shows itself after opening start menu.

    Steps:

    1. Using HDMI for a second monitor.
    2. Open start menu using the icon.
    3. Close start menu using the icon.
    4. Click anywhere other than the task bars. (e.g. an open window, the desktop, even the first monitor's desktop)
    5. Taskbar on second monitor slides down to be hidden.
    6. Taskbar then immediately slides up to reappear.

    If after closing the start menu (step 3), you click on the taskbar, then click outside the taskbar, this behavior does not occur.

    Performing the steps on the main monitor's taskbar does not produce this behavior.

    This has been happening for as long as I can remember using this laptop (~3years), with different nVidia drivers and Windows 10 updates.
     
    Dreaming Void, Aug 11, 2020
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  3. NAKI
    Naki Win User
    Feature suggestion: Add right-click menu

    Suggestion: Please add a Windows 7 Jump-List and/or right-click menu to the GPU-Z icon in the Windows taskbar. Possible menus in it would be "Exit" and "About GPU-Z...".
    Maybe also "Switch to tab 1/Switch to tab 2/Switch to videocard 1/Switch to videocard 2" too.
    Examples of programs that have such menus are ICQ, Skype, AIM.

    NOTE: It seems for a right-click menu, Windows 7 is not needed - it works on WinXP and Vista too.
    But even a Windows 7 Jump-list may be good enough.
    What do you think?
     
    Naki, Aug 11, 2020
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  4. JANOTHIN
    Janothin Win User

    Cant click on taskbar/start menu

    Start Menu and Taskbar customization

    Hi everyone,

    Does anyone have recommendations on how to customize the start menu and taskbar for a deployment image? I've tried customizing the start menu and taskbar, then exporting the configuration into a XML, but the start menu appears in two columns when I want it half way along with the taskbar settings not sticking.

    Any suggestions will be great!
     
    Janothin, Aug 11, 2020
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