Windows 10: Windows 11 - Floating transparent box over the taskbar with loading cursor

Hi everyone,I´m getting this floating transparent box over the taskbar and if I hover my mouse over it, it shows a loading cursor as if I am launching a program. It gets solved after restarting the computer but then it comes back. This is happening on Windows 11, which is fully updated.Hope someone has a solution since this region is not clickable at all.

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Floating Transparent Magnifying Glass in Windows 10

Greetings,

Thank you for getting back to my email. Please try the following steps below.

1. Open Magnifier.

2. You can change your magnifier view by pressing Ctrl + Alt + M – this will cycle through full screen mode, a floating transparent magnifying glass, or docked.

this should open the transparent floating window.

Press the Windows logo key + Plus (+) or Minus (-) to zoom in and out.

Hope this helps, Please let me know how it goes,

Have a great day ahead, stay safe.

Sincerely,

 

Floating Transparent Magnifying Glass in Windows 10

I just upgraded from Windows 10 1903 to Windows 10 2004 Update and have lost the floating transparent magnifier icon when I activate the magnify function. I now get a persistent menu bar for magnifier which takes up way too much screen area.

It looks as if Microsoft has removed the "Collapse Magnifier window to a floating transparent magnifying glass" in the options with this update.

Is there a way to get the transparent floating magnifying glass icon back again?

 

taskbar tranparency

Hi Dan,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused. I will surely assist you with this.

I would suggest you to change the desktop themes and check if you are able to see the transparent taskbar.

If that doesn't help I would suggest you to end the explorer.exe and restart it and see if you are able to see the transparent taskbar.

Please follow the steps below to restart explorer.exe:

stop and start Explorer.exe

• • 
    Right click on the taskbar and select task manager.
    
  • 
    In the process Right click on windows explorer and end the task
    
  • 
    Restart the task by clicking on the file and select new task
    
  • 
    Type Explorer.exe and press enter.
    

And see if it helps.

Do let us know the result. We will be glad to help if you need further assistance.