Taskbar not responding/unstable

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop on a Mac with Apple silicon' started by MatthiasE5, Dec 23, 2021.

  1. MatthiasE5

    MatthiasE5 Hunter

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    Win 11 Pro 22000.376
    M1 / Big Sur
    Latest Parallels

    FYI, today my taskbar would not respond reliably anymore to mouse movement.
    Symptoms:
    - blue circle mouse pointer
    - sometimes object ( programs, start menu) on taskbar not clickable
    - sometimes taskbar will not show up when moving cursor there (note: taskbar is set to auto-hide.)
    - hitting WIN-key (command) will make taskbar show up.

    Windows still responds other than the taskbar being unstable.

    I am now going to go to taskmanager and restart explorer.exe. This fixes the issue.
    This issue does not seem to be the severe issue that used to exist a few months ago where the taskbar totally broke down due to a Microsoft bug.

    Note that interestingly, in Task Manager, "Processes" conveniently allows to restart "explorer.exe" whilst "details" seems to only provice "end task" (requiring you to manually launch explorer.exe with win-R).

    This fixes the issue - not reboot needed.

    I hope this is of use to someone. It's probably not even related to Parallels or ARM, it is probably just a general MS issue in Win 11 because they are constantly messing with the new taskbar.
     

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