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Application Compatibility

Aaron Junker edited this page Mar 20, 2022 · 38 revisions

Some applications may cause issues and sadly, at times, we can't work around it.

General

Applications that impact PowerToys on System Startup/Restart

  • TaskbarX, #9959: Causes PowerToys not to work until manually closed and restarted. Also causes sys-tray icon to not appear.

FancyZones

Applications that cannot be zoned exactly

In multi-monitor configuration, when the monitors have different DPI scaling factors, and a zone touches a screen edge, the snapped window may be resized so that its border is a few pixels away from the edge of the screen. That happens when the snapped application is not DPI aware.

Applications that cannot be zoned

Application Issue # Why / Possible Workaround
Application Guard #616 None (EVENT_SYSTEM_MOVESIZESTART is not raised)
Citrix #690 None
Citrix Workspace #7135 A comment in the issue has possible workaround
Civilization 4 #1004 None
GoToWebinar #3734 None
Hyper-V Connection #4336 None
iLO Remote Console #8067 A comment in the issue has possible workaround
LDPlayer #8082 Use secondary mouse button to activate zones instead of Shift
Parsec #9138 None
Mir4 App #16864 None
Origin game launcher #1466 None
RemoteApp #441 None, the app steals all the keyboard/mouse events
Runelite commnet in #1466 Partial workaround: Disable its 'custom chrome window' in the runelite settings
TeamViewer #6945 TeamViewer may install display drivers that prevent FZ to be able to set the layout on each monitor independently
TWS InteractiveBrokers #6771 None
UPlay game launcher #1466 None
Windows Virtual Desktop #10018 None
VMware Workstation Player #666 None (EVENT_SYSTEM_MOVESIZESTART is not raised)
WindowsFX #8321 Detailed explanation

Applications that cause FancyZones Editor to fail to open:

  • RivaTunerStatisticsServer (MSI Afterburner). #707

Applications that cause FancyZones snapping to crash apps:

Applications that need FancyZones to run elevated:

Since at present FancyZones runs in the same process of PowerToys, these applications require PowerToys to run as administrator in order to be zonable:

  • HWiNFO64
  • TeamSpeak 3

Screen capture software:

Workaround is to add the incompatible application to the FancyZones excluded apps list:

Application Issue # Why / Possible Workaround
ShareX #7291 Add ShareX to the FancyZones excluded apps
Screenpresso #4478 None
Greenshot #4373 Recent version seems to not have the compatibility issue

Keyboard manager

Application Issue # Why / Possible Workaround
Avid Pro Tools (2020) #7396 They use a lower level hook, possibly driver based
Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center #7328 See comment