Have to click open folders after reboot

[Galvin]

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.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

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.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

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?

 

[Twayne]

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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`