On Windows 11, when Indesign is open, the windows task bar stop responding

[Zero Cool]

On Windows 11, when Indesign is open, the windows task bar stop responding, and if a windows is open in background, clicking on the icon on the task bar do not bring it on top.

Does anyone have this problem ? (for me it happen on both my PC)

[BobLevine]

I can confirm this behavior. I find there are times I have to minimize InDesign in order to open other windows.

It's an annoyance but nothing I've found the time to even bother reporting.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

It's not just InDesign or any other Adobe app, and not just normal pop-up behavior.

For all the improvements of Win11—and they are many—MS broke the taskbar in six stupid, unnecessary ways and shows no inclination to fix any of them. Sigh.

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[BobLevine]

This does help: Stardock Start11: Restore the Classic Start Menu in Windows 10 and 11.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Only if you care about the Start Menu, which I have basically never used. I know it's a big deal to many users.

I want the task bar to stick to any monitor edge I choose, not almost immediately block clicks with a pop-up app name, and respond no matter what app I am using. There are some registry hacks for partial fixes, but nothing "clean" and MS maintains an air of complete ignorance about the matter(s).

ETA: And just to be sure, I grabbed Stardock on a trial. All it does is put a menu on the Win11 options and allow the one hack of positioning it top or bottom. I want to drag it to the left edge of my left-ist monitor, as I have for a decade or more. Nothing I know of will permit this, or suppress the almost-instant popup tips.

Thx, though.

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[Brad Grigor]

This issue, if I understand it correctly, is not restricted to Win11. It has been present with Adobe Creative Cloud applications under Win10 for some time.

The issue as I personally experience it is the Adobe Creative Cloud apps do not play nice with the Windows "TaskView" function. They either ignore it or defeat it.

Specifically, I use Window's TaskView function all the time as the basic means to organize and navigate in my workflow where I have 3 physical monitors and 9 virtual desktops. I typically keep Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign open in separate virtual desktops so I can spread their panels across the 3 monitors. I use TaskView (Win-Tab key) to get a birds-eye view of all my open tasks and my virtual desktops. It is a very neat feature. Sadly, the Adobe apps almost always refuse to let Win-Tab work when they have focus. In other words, hitting Win-Tab does nothing.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

FWIW, I've never experienced any of these behaviors, and I don't remember the task bar oddities before Win11. ID having the focus will sometimes prevent the task bar from being accessible; that's all I've seen. I don't use task view often but it always works as expected, even with an Adobe app in control.

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[BobLevine]

It's only been a couple of days, but since updating to 22H2 I'm not seeing this anymore.

[Brad Grigor]

I should clarify. The issue with the Adobe Creative Cloud apps, in particular InDesign which I use most often, seems to be that when InDesign is first launched and is full-screen, Win-Tab and the other TaskView keys (e.g. Ctrl-Win arrow keys to switch virtual desktops) don't work. However, if InDesign is minimized, these keys will work. Then if InDesign is restored to full-screen later, the keys usually continue to work. I will try to pay closer attention to it.  

[Graphic Squirrel]

I just moved to Windows 11 and am finding this same behavior.  Every app on the taskbar is unresponsive when I have InDesign open, so I have to minimize ID every time I want to move to another app.  This is a problem because I must move from one app to another on a regular basis.  Has any solution been discovered?  It is really unacceptable.  

Thanks for any help,

GS

[BobLevine]

Have you updated Windows 11 to 22H2?

[Brad Grigor]

This is an elusive issue. I have recently installed InDesign 2023 on Win11 22H2 and so far there are no apparent issues with Windows Task View shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl-Win-arrows, Win-Tab, etc.). OTOH, I just upgraded to InDesign 2023 on Win10 21H2 and when InDesign 2023 was first launched in full-screen mode, Win-Tab didn't work. I have not made an exhaustive analysis of this problem, but there certainly is something going on.

[Lucas Ospina]

In Windows 10 & 1.1 on a Windows Surface Book Pro, when working in Adobe In Design, randomly, 1 out of 5 times, more or less, the computer keyboard crashes outside of the InDesign application, I can work in the program, but outside of it, I have to use shortcuts, or keys to be able to open folders and use other programs. The problem is only solved when I restart the computer. Quite a  mistery (and a misery when I need to get work done).

[BobLevine]

This has nothing to do with the original post which has been asked and answered. I see you've already posted this separately and I'm locking this discussion to avoid any confusion.