Bug in the sidebar of Windows 7 RTM

Hello

I've been using RTM of Windows 7 Professional x 64 and I noticed a very annoying bug with the sidebar.  I can reproduce 100% of the time by following these steps:

  1. Take any program window, and then drag the gadgets.  You may notice that the gadgets remain behind the window.
  2. Press the 'Show Desktop' button in the lower right.
  3. Restore any window or opening a new program and now try and drag it on the gadgets.  You may notice that the stay of gadgets are always on top of any other window.

The only way to solve this problem is by enabling / disabling the "Show desktop icons" option (context menu in the office) and the new.

I fixed it by restarting the computer... but it certainly isn't the only time when that happened.

It just happened again not too long (was to kill sidebar.exe restart it...)

Seems that something is randomly triggered.

Tags: Windows

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