Windows 7 Taskbar Icon Highlight Sticks

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Mar 15, 202658037 views

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After running Win 7 for some unknown period of time, the taskbar icon highlight starts to stick (video demo here: http://screencast.com/t/l5LhJ2uM). If I restart or kill explorer.exe and relaunch, it goes away. Any idea what might be causing this?

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Fix for: Windows 7 Taskbar Icon Highlight Sticks

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I found that Shift-Right Clicking on any taskbar item brings up the pre-7 context menu and after it's dismissed, the highlight is not stuck any more. No idea what's causing this though, but I hope it's a monthly-update-fixable type of bug.

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