Not a big problem but worth mentioning. Frequently, when I right click on the FxSound task tray icon, instead of having the menu pop-up and stay visible so I can make a selection, it flashes briefly and then disappears. What I do in this case is just left-click so that the icon appears on the task bar. Then I can click on that icon to make the main GUI appear.
Other than that the latest version works incredibly well. Thanks.
BTW Windows 11 Home, latest (as of 2024-10-03) FxSound
I find it most annoying. The window is appearing on the bottom not the top.
I have a little more info. I can now reliably force the problem. I can demonstrate that the pop-up works. If I then left click on the battery icon in the task tray the Windows menu expands. Once I close it and right click on the FxSound task tray icon it just flashes and goes away. Once I bring up the full FxSound GUI the right click option starts working again.
Hmm weird this sounds like a bug. @Reverend_Jim is it still happening? @bvijay any ideas why this could be happening?
I’m going to suggest this be tabled for a bit. I installed it on a Windows 10 laptop and was unable to recreate the problem with the steps I listed. I’ve noticed a couple of other unusual explorer.exe behaviours on my Windows 11 machine so I plan to do a refresh install to see if they clear up. Perhaps this will clear up the fxsound problem as well.
Hi @Reverend_Jim,
I tested on Windows 11 build version 10.0.22631.4249 and I am unable to replicate the pop-up menu issue. If you run in the same issue again, please take a note of the OS version.
I have been away. I am not late to the party, I am the party. Bottoms up!
At this point in the process, I would have interjected - You are describing a systray/notification problem. Please show all systray icons and test.
Again, not an identified “fxsound problem”. Windows 11 24H2 has a modified systray compared to 23H2.
Also, you have published an email address.
@Antman:
Thanks for pointing this detail out.
@Reverend_Jim:
I went ahead and deleted the post containing the image.
Sonofagun You are right. I forced the “problem” then checked the context menu for Skype. It also failed to respond. I think it’s time for a reinstall as sfc and dism fail to fix it.
Also, thanks for noticing and deleting the email thing.
OK. Update. I had to rebuild my installation from scratch to fix a broken Windows 11 user profile. One of the first things I installed after all thge Windows updates was FxSound, and the non-persistent pop-up behaviour is still there. I spent a good hour in a chat session with Microsoft and we determined that only two taskbar apps showed problems. FxSound was one. The other was Skype which showed no pop-up context menu at all.
The conclusion was that Skype and FxSound are both doing something to cause this behaviour. All my other taskbar apps worked as expected.
As I said earlier, it’s not a problem as such. More just an oddity.
