[Taskbar10] Action center, control center and search are misplaced when collapsing taskbar is enabled.

[NotSpaulding]

Using the Windows 10 taskbar

As you can see, at the start of the recording the taskbar is set to auto-hide which makes the placement of the action center is incorrect, overlapping the taskbar entirely; after that I double click the taskbar to make it stop auto-hiding which fixes the problem.

Using The Windows 11 taskbar

In this recording everything works as intended, the action center is placed above the taskbar at all times.

The same issue is present on the control center and the search (ie. when pressing WIN + S).

[pyrates999]

I would say this would be a bug in windows itself, not EP.

The reason being is that you wait until the build number text has moved up. The action center is aligning itself to where that text is when the taskbar is set to the windows 10 taskbar.

Have you tried not showing the build number text on the desktop?

[NotSpaulding]

The reason being is that you wait until the build number text has moved up. The action center is aligning itself to where that text is when the taskbar is set to the windows 10 taskbar.

I don't think that is the case. You can see in the second recording I've provided the build info is still on the bottom when the taskbar is set to auto-hide and the action center is still positioned correctly.

Have you tried not showing the build number text on the desktop?

Disabling the build info has no effect.

I would say this would be a bug in windows itself, not EP.

I agree. But the sole purpose of this software is to patch Windows's explorer. The reason this problem occurs is because Microsoft had no reason to account for something like this, considering the Windows 10 taskbar is not something you have access to normally on Windows 11.

[pyrates999]

I would say this would be a bug in windows itself, not EP.

I agree. But the sole purpose of this software is to patch Windows's explorer. The reason this problem occurs is because Microsoft had no reason to account for something like this, considering the Windows 10 taskbar is not something you have access to normally on Windows 11.

So whether this can be fixed by EP or not, I will let the developers decide on that.

[NotSpaulding]

Of course if it's too hard to implement it's not really worth it considering how small of an issue this is.

In case this helps; I found this other "mod" that reduces the size of the Windows 11 taskbar and has the action center have the correct placement. https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk-mods/blob/main/mods/taskbar-icon-size.wh.cpp

[NotSpaulding]

This was fixed in release 22621.2506.60.1 with the commits ac268b1 & 7d0cdde. Thanks for your work!