Have to click open folders after reboot

This is a problem I've had with windows XP, Vista, Windows 7.
After I do a reboot, I must click every open folder or the task bar will
not autohide. The folder icons have a highlight animation playing on
them till I click them.

The only time this doesn't happen if I reboot thru an install program.
I'd really like to fix this issue if possible.

In message <>, Galvin
<> writes:
>This is a problem I've had with windows XP, Vista, Windows 7.
>After I do a reboot, I must click every open folder or the task bar
>will not autohide. The folder icons have a highlight animation playing
>on them till I click them.
>
>The only time this doesn't happen if I reboot thru an install program.
>I'd really like to fix this issue if possible.

Could be to do with that highlight animation. I don't remember where it
is on XP and don't know on 7, but I remember coming across a setting for
what applications should do if something changes in them making them
want your attention: the options were something like take focus, flash
in the taskbar for X seconds (or possibly X flashes), flash in the
taskbar indefinitely (which is what I have, I think), and there might
have been an option to do nothing. I'm wondering if, in your case,
they're deciding they need your attention when you do a reboot.
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On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:29:05 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

> In message <>, Galvin
> <> writes:
>>This is a problem I've had with windows XP, Vista, Windows 7.
>>After I do a reboot, I must click every open folder or the task bar
>>will not autohide. The folder icons have a highlight animation playing
>>on them till I click them.
>>
>>The only time this doesn't happen if I reboot thru an install program.
>>I'd really like to fix this issue if possible.
>
> Could be to do with that highlight animation. I don't remember where it
> is on XP and don't know on 7, but I remember coming across a setting for
> what applications should do if something changes in them making them
> want your attention: the options were something like take focus, flash
> in the taskbar for X seconds (or possibly X flashes), flash in the
> taskbar indefinitely (which is what I have, I think), and there might
> have been an option to do nothing. I'm wondering if, in your case,
> they're deciding they need your attention when you do a reboot.

Since the OP has had the problem on three versions of Windows, I expect
that it's some software he is - and has been for years - running at
startup, which is pretty close to what you said, yes?

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

In news:,
Galvin <> typed:
> This is a problem I've had with windows XP, Vista,
> Windows 7. After I do a reboot, I must click every open folder or
> the task bar will not autohide. The folder icons have a
> highlight animation playing on them till I click them.
>
> The only time this doesn't happen if I reboot thru an
> install program. I'd really like to fix this issue if
> possible.

Some program you are running is causing those, especially if it's over XP
Vista and win 7. Start un-installing apps you carried over from one OS to
the next until it goes away, then figure out whether you really need the
program causing it.


HTH,

Twayne`