Left clicking on the larger network icon sometimes works (but open the window in a weird place) and sometimes does nothing. #2 For some reason there is a second, smaller, copy of the systray icons for network and audio, hovering over one of the smaller pair causes both to get highlighted, but clicking them does nothing. Only the open and focussed Notepad gets an indicator of any sort #1 Firefox and Notepad are both running, Outlook is not, but there is no visual distinction between the closed (but pinned) Outlook vs the open (but not focussed) Firefox. On top of that the Win 11 taskbar has a few issues as shown in the attached screenshot. Problem is the DF taskbar correctly detects Windows 11 and forces itself to a Windows 11 style meaning it doesn't match the OS taskbar.

I use StartAllBack, but other methods exist such as those described here If StartAllBar isn’t in the Control Panel, open the file explorer. Click StartAllBar and the app will open again. There's a few solutions around out there to restore the Windows 10 taskbar on Windows 11. To enable StartAllBack again, go to the Control Panel.

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