I can start Notepad and it appears in the task bar but it won't display on the screen.
Subject says it all.
I can start Notepad and it appears in the
task bar but it won't display on the screen.
No idea if this is a recent W10 "feature".
Initial searches not helping.
David wrote:
I can start Notepad and it appears in the task bar but it won't display
on
the screen.
make sure the "invisible" notepad is selected in the taskbar,
press alt-space and then choose either restore or maximize from the menu
that should pop-up
Subject says it all.
I can start Notepad and it appears in the task bar but it won't display on the screen.
No idea if this is a recent W10 "feature".
Initial searches not helping.
Cheers
Dave R
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AMD FX-6300 in GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF running Windows 7 Pro x64
Subject says it all.
I can start Notepad and it appears in the task bar but it won't display on the screen.
No idea if this is a recent W10 "feature".
Initial searches not helping.
Cheers
Dave R
David wrote:
Subject says it all.
I can start Notepad and it appears in the task bar but it won't
display on the screen.
No idea if this is a recent W10 "feature".
Initial searches not helping.
Cheers
Dave R
You could try Task Manager - Processes_Tab - click the instance line for
it - Maximize.
https://i.postimg.cc/N0wB6xM1/Task-Manager-Process-Tab-Maximize.gif
That's to prove it actually has a corresponding window.
Don't ask me what to do next :-)
I'm just trying to do something simple, to prove there
isn't a more serious problem.
*******
Right now on 21H1, I can see that some incoming patch,
is patching Notepad. Again, a state of flux exists.
Is it installed, that patch ? Or not ? Have you rebooted
lately and given the stupid thing a chance to finish
whatever mess it got itself into ?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/august-10-2021-kb5005033-os-builds-19041-1165-19042-1165-and-19043-1165-b4c77d08-435a-4833-b9f7-e092372079a4
If the machine had been turned off for a while, that
might have just arrived. This is a file which lists
every file included in the KB5005033.
https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/e/e/1eeb7268-cb6a-4865-a98b-9c51f0ec7beb/5005033.csv
Notepad.exe 10.0.19041.1081 218624 bytes
*******
My notepad is functional. This is what Spy++ shows.
https://i.postimg.cc/VNyg0kq5/spy-notepad-details.gif
Under the green "Code" button here, is a "Download ZIP" option.
The ZIP I got, has a "spy14.00.25420" folder in it. The
"spyxx_amd64.exe" is for an x64 OS. The "spyxx.exe" is
for a x86 (32bit) OS.
https://github.com/westoncampbell/SpyPlusPlus
If you run that on Win7 or Win8, you'll need "two clumps
of DLLs". Since we're discussing Win10 right now, I
won't go into the misery of satisfying the extra passengers
that need to be thrown into the folder. Suffice to say,
some of the daily utilities we use, like Firefox, actually
have one of the clumps of DLLs installed with them. The
other bunch is a Visual Studio runtime (the files all have
the same name but are different versions, the most recent
versions contain multiple versions of files).
In Win10, "spyxx_amd64.exe" should "just work". Double-click.
In any case, you have two things. You have the Task Manager
knob, to try to get the window to appear. And running the
"spyxx_amd64.exe" by double-clicking, compare to my
[working] Notepad example, and see if there really is
a window listed for it. If your entry doesn't match mine,
that would be a bad sign. And you can't really make
a program do the right thing -- you could try elevating
Notepad, which Notepad does not mind. But things like
session number protection (where a program is in a
different "session" than the display manager), you can
be blocked then, from opening windows, which would be
an excellent reason for a window to be absent. You would
think any decent application would just exit, if denied
access to the display.
Paul
David wrote:
Subject says it all.
I can start Notepad and it appears in the task bar but it won't
display on the screen.
No idea if this is a recent W10 "feature".
Initial searches not helping.
Cheers
Dave R
You could try Task Manager - Processes_Tab - click the instance line for
it - Maximize.
https://i.postimg.cc/N0wB6xM1/Task-Manager-Process-Tab-Maximize.gif
That's to prove it actually has a corresponding window.
Don't ask me what to do next :-)
I'm just trying to do something simple, to prove there
isn't a more serious problem.
*******
Right now on 21H1, I can see that some incoming patch,
is patching Notepad. Again, a state of flux exists.
Is it installed, that patch ? Or not ? Have you rebooted
lately and given the stupid thing a chance to finish
whatever mess it got itself into ?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/august-10-2021-kb5005033-os-builds-19041-1165-19042-1165-and-19043-1165-b4c77d08-435a-4833-b9f7-e092372079a4
If the machine had been turned off for a while, that
might have just arrived. This is a file which lists
every file included in the KB5005033.
https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/e/e/1eeb7268-cb6a-4865-a98b-9c51f0ec7beb/5005033.csv
Notepad.exe 10.0.19041.1081 218624 bytes
*******
My notepad is functional. This is what Spy++ shows.
https://i.postimg.cc/VNyg0kq5/spy-notepad-details.gif
Under the green "Code" button here, is a "Download ZIP" option.
The ZIP I got, has a "spy14.00.25420" folder in it. The
"spyxx_amd64.exe" is for an x64 OS. The "spyxx.exe" is
for a x86 (32bit) OS.
https://github.com/westoncampbell/SpyPlusPlus
If you run that on Win7 or Win8, you'll need "two clumps
of DLLs". Since we're discussing Win10 right now, I
won't go into the misery of satisfying the extra passengers
that need to be thrown into the folder. Suffice to say,
some of the daily utilities we use, like Firefox, actually
have one of the clumps of DLLs installed with them. The
other bunch is a Visual Studio runtime (the files all have
the same name but are different versions, the most recent
versions contain multiple versions of files).
In Win10, "spyxx_amd64.exe" should "just work". Double-click.
In any case, you have two things. You have the Task Manager
knob, to try to get the window to appear. And running the
"spyxx_amd64.exe" by double-clicking, compare to my
[working] Notepad example, and see if there really is
a window listed for it. If your entry doesn't match mine,
that would be a bad sign. And you can't really make
a program do the right thing -- you could try elevating
Notepad, which Notepad does not mind. But things like
session number protection (where a program is in a
different "session" than the display manager), you can
be blocked then, from opening windows, which would be
an excellent reason for a window to be absent. You would
think any decent application would just exit, if denied
access to the display.
Paul
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