Taskbar "Always on top" behavior different between single and multiplemonitors?

[Robert Pendell]

Ok. This is an odd one I have been scratching my head about. It is
weird that I never noticed this before. It seems the taskbar behavior
is different if you have only one screen vs multiple screens. For me
the option Always on Top has been enabled for a long time.

If I have only one screen enabled when I drag the bottom edge of the
window it will stop at the top edge of the taskbar and will not go below
it. The only way to get under the taskbar is to take the title bar and
move the whole window down. Right now that is what I want.

If I have multiple screens enabled then I can take the bottom edge of
any window and it will go under the taskbar without stopping.

Like I said this is with Always on Top enabled and to make sure it
wasn't some odd registry setting that was changed on my main install I
did clean installed inside of a VM and tested this. The VM of choice
was VirtualBox and I used a backend setting in the software (not a GUI
option) to tell the VM software that 2 monitors existed (even if it
couldn't actually display the second screen). The same behavior was
reproducable on clean installs with both Service Pack 2 and Service Pack
3 inside the VM. Any ideas on this one? Is it a bug? (Oh and before
anyone says anything -- Yes I have enough licenses to cover legit
installs of the VMs although to save activations I chose to only do a
key-less install with SP3).

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[George Yin]

Hello,

Thank you for your post.

I have found that this problem can be reproduced in both Windows Vista and
Windows Server 2008, and I am now trying to build a Windows XP test
environment with two monitors to check it. It may take some time. I will
let you know the results as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,
George Yin
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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[Robert Pendell]

Thanks for your quick response on this. I did not realize this would be
an issue that was carried over to Vista and Server 2008 and await your
resolution regarding this issue.

Hello,

Thank you for your post.

I have found that this problem can be reproduced in both Windows Vista and
Windows Server 2008, and I am now trying to build a Windows XP test
environment with two monitors to check it. It may take some time. I will
let you know the results as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,
George Yin
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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Robert Pendell
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"A perfect world is one of chaos."

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[George Yin]

Hello Robert,

After some tests, I have found this problem can be reproduced on Windows
XP. Additionally, there seems no workaround to change this behavior.

I have reported this to our product group and was told that this problem
would be resolved in the next edition of Windows. I am sorry for the
inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Sincerely,
George Yin
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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[Robert Pendell]

Hello Robert,

After some tests, I have found this problem can be reproduced on Windows
XP. Additionally, there seems no workaround to change this behavior.

I have reported this to our product group and was told that this problem
would be resolved in the next edition of Windows. I am sorry for the
inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Sincerely,
George Yin
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

Not a problem. So I take it that there is no chance that it might be
rolled into a security update?

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Robert Pendell
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"A perfect world is one of chaos."

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[George Yin]

Hello Robert,

Unfortunately, as far as I know, there won't be any update for this until
the next edition of Windows.

Again, sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Sincerely,
George Yin
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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