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"Show Desktop" sometimes sets a window to "always on top"

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Mar 15, 202667480 views
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No worries, not another "where is my show desktop button gone" question. What I found under Windows 7, when you use the "Show Desktop" feature (I prefer the ⊞ Win + D shortcut) and then bring all windows back by using it again, some windows behave as if they're glued to the front of the z-order. Wh…

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Fix for: "Show Desktop" sometimes sets a window to "always on top"

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Recently experienced this issue. Unsure how it started, but I was able to put windows to this "super window" state with ⊞ win + d twice and clicking on a different window. I was going to try the Ctrl + Shift + Esc shortcut to open the Task Manager b…

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