Windows 10: title and task bar interference in games

Recently Ive become obsessed with playing the game Sea of Thieves, when one day, whenever I flicked my mouse up or down it would pull up the title bar or task bar respectively. this often caused my cursor to stop functioning for a brief amount of time in game, and often even caused me to close the game when i flick my mouse towards the top right and click my mouse, such as when fighting or aiming. I play on the Surface Book 3, and up until yesterday have had no problems with this issue. needless to say this has ruined more than a couple games for me. its a single monitor setup. the only thing I can think of that could have changed it somehow, is I was changing some bindings on my mouse. Ive looked everywhere and nothing seems to work, such as restarting the task bar and such. if someone could tell me how to fix this, it would be much appreciated.

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Task and Title Bar Color

How do i prevent title and task bar color from changing to default gray color when running games on basic custom theme on Windows 7?

 

Cannot modify Task Bar settings

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and will be happy to assist you.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if the issue persists.

• Right click on the Task Bar.
• Uncheck the option " Lock the Taskbar."

Hope this helps.

 

Allow UWP apps to disable task bar and title bar popups when in full-screen mode.

Hi,

This probably requires a combination solution from both Windows and the WinRT team. I posted elsewhere, but it was closed ...

https://developercommunity.visualst...apps-to-lock-task-bar-and-title-bar-popu.html

The issue with app & desktop popups is that it shouldn't happen when an app/game is in windowed fullscreen mode because it interferes with edge detection, which is a commonly used technique in games - for example: Starcraft uses the screen edge to scroll
the camera - and is also a common incidental occurrence, unrelated to intention.

UWP applications as they currently behave could never have a game like Starcraft. That's a huge problem for the platform. And beyond games that use edge detection, having the task bar or title bar popup in games is generally unacceptable. I've seen Minecraft
and Astroneer both suffering popups that are not requested. You're making an assumption that just because the mouse is at the top or bottom of the screen, that we want the bars to popup. That is not the case, it often just happens that that's where the mouse
ends up as we move it around. Alt-Tab is already available for switching to desktop if I need it. And games are always closable in software.

Another issue comes from this bad behavior. When the title bar and task bar popup they initiate a HDR <-> SDR switch causing flickering or even the entire video and audio feed dropping out as the color mode switches.