PPopup->TrackPopupMenu ( TPM_LEFTALIGN | TPM_RIGHTBUTTON,pt.x, pt. So the question is what is the right way to program showing tray context menu’s for windows 10? The taskbar may be set to 'Auto-hide' (Windows XP with Service Pack 2 only). If the presentation display was changed, the taskbar may have moved off of the visible screen (Windows 7 and Vista only). The taskbar may be hiding at the bottom of the screen after being accidentally resized. I have tried with the NotificationIcon sample from the windows SDK but this also does not work correctly. Window Stuck Under Taskbar Windows 10 7 Causes. The Windows Sound and Network icons will hide the taskbar while showing a regular right click menu, but keeping the start menu open.

The Windows Time and Language parts of the system tray will show menus on top of the taskbar with the new windows 10 layout (black) Now, press CTRL + SHIFT + Esc keys together from keyboard to open task manager. Now, click on Clear beside clear file explorer history to clear history. I can also see that there are lots of other application like “Skype for business” and “Radeon Settings” that does the same thing.įor the build-in windows 10 applications this works better. Search file explorer options in Windows 10 taskbar search. I have tried with different full screen application like internet explorer, Notepad++ but the same thing happens. When it is not a full screen application that in in front the menu is correctly shown on top of the taskbar and I have also testes on windows 7 where it works fine with full screen application. In some cases, the menu is so low that it is not possible to select the lowest menu item in the context menu. Then when I right click the icon the menu will show up behind(under) the windows taskbar. I have found that if I have a full screen application running and then use alt + esc to get to the tray icon. When you right click the tray icon it shows a menu where the user can select an action.

I have an application with an icon in the system tray.

Window stuck behind taskbar