/span flag makes desktop icons disappear when Show Desktop is pres

[Peter]

I recently reinstalled Windows 2003 with Terminal Services because the old
one started to behave badly. Everything went just fine, but I notice one
oddity. The users who are using dual monitors also use the /span flag for
obvious reasons, but this flag now causes the desktop icons to
disappear/reappear with regular windows when Show Desktop button is pressed.
To clarify, all icons disappear when this button is pressed or when "show
the desktop" option is selected from the right click menu of the task bar.
They also appear again when these options are selected again, just like
regular windows do. This does not happen when the /span flag is not used.
I find this very odd and have no idea how to troubleshoot this, nor have I
ever heard of such behaviour. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Rong Chen [MSFT]]

Re: /span flag makes desktop icons disappear when Show Desktop is pres

What is the version of your client?

Thanks

Rong


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"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E48E4303-BF4C-44A9-9795-AE1DDDDE52FC@microsoft.com...
>I recently reinstalled Windows 2003 with Terminal Services because the old
> one started to behave badly. Everything went just fine, but I notice one
> oddity. The users who are using dual monitors also use the /span flag for
> obvious reasons, but this flag now causes the desktop icons to
> disappear/reappear with regular windows when Show Desktop button is
> pressed.
> To clarify, all icons disappear when this button is pressed or when "show
> the desktop" option is selected from the right click menu of the task bar.
> They also appear again when these options are selected again, just like
> regular windows do. This does not happen when the /span flag is not used.
> I find this very odd and have no idea how to troubleshoot this, nor have I
> ever heard of such behaviour. Any help is greatly appreciated.