Windows 10: Icons in taskbar went transparent after switching virtual desktops

Quite often after switching between virtual desktops some icons in taskbar become transparent. Reinstalling drivers, updating, restarting Explorer did not help.

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Major Taskbar/Virtual Desktop Bug

I have given up on Microsoft fixing this issue, clearly a major problem for anyone who uses the virtual desktop feature (obviously the folks at MS don't).

Fortunately, there is a fix for this. Look for "taskbar tweaker". It's free. Once installed, right click on the tray icon and select advanced options. Scroll down the list and look for "virtual desktop order fix" and change that to 1.

This fixes the issues of taskbar icons moving when switching between desktops!

 

Really big transparent desktop icons that allow you to see the window slideshow pictures

I am currently using the built-in slideshow picture feature of windows to show a gallery of my images on my desktop, but as icons populate my desktop, they cover the slideshow images area. To get around this, I creates about 50 or so of the largest sized
desktop icons that show a transparent image. While this solved the problem of regular desktop icons covering all or most of my slideshow images, it does have some problems and doesn't look all that good: the transparent icons sometimes move and 'break' the
transparent region and these icons have names that detracts from the overall effect.

I would like to have the built-in windows slideshow feature better integrate with the desktop with a few new options that would make the slideshow images look better:

1. Create a transparent placeholder region, that works like a oversized desktop icon, and would force regular desktop icons to be place around it.
2. The transparent placeholder region can be sized so the amount of desktop area for regular desktop icons can be managed.
3. Slideshow images that are larger than the transparent placeholder region can either be clipped or not:
   1. Clipping causes slideshow images to only show the part of the image that fits within the transparent placeholder region. The image would be centered within the transparent placeholder region.
   2. Not clipped shows under the regular desktop icons that surround the transparent placeholder region, as they do now.
4. Slideshow images can be automatically resized to fit within the transparent placeholder region or allowed to show normally.
5. This suggestion would get around a few problems that using multiple normal icons that contain transparent images currently suffer:
   1. The transparent placeholder region is much easier to maintain than if the region is made up of lots of regular desktop icons,
   2. Added new icons never land within the area occupied by the transparent placeholder region,
   3. Regular icons have names and selection checkboxes that if used as a placeholders don't look good, and
   4. The transparent placeholder region never contain images, so can be rendered more efficiently than regular icons because an image file is never accessed.

Thanks

 

virtual desktops

Click the Task View button beside the search box/icon in the taskbar.

Click +Desktop to add Virtual Desktop

Hover your mouse to Desktop1 to show list of open Windows

Drag and drop each Windows to target virtual desktop