Wait ... What ?_?

For long time, my Windows task bar has been disfunctional. I had to be quick-but-not-too-much if I wanted to reach those snapshots the UI shows you when you right-click on any of the docked icons. If not, the pop-up would disappear before I can enter it. Trying to access the tray icons was even worth: I'd need roughly 4 or 5 attempts to get any of those "quick-access" items.

For long time, I've been considering this must be a nasty side-effect of the sloppy focus emulation I had enabled. The fact that I have one task bar on the right edge of the screen clearly did not help. But I had noted that the horizontal task bar did not have this issue. It's on the secondary screen, hidden most of the time so that my Linux VM can shine through. So I finally search for a way to migrate the tray icons on the horizontal bar, but I couldn't follow the instructions. I clicked "lock all taskbars", but then I couldn't move them as the poster claims.

wait ...

Right click on any taskbar, then uncheck Lock all taskbars

it ... it has no checkmark here ... you mean ... it is already unchecked ? I was running the OS for years with taskbar that could follow my mouse cursor at anytime !_? And ... and yeah, of course this is why this PC has an issue with the taskbar popups ... Did you believe it ? Nah. That's not the reason. That's because the panel is *next to* the task bar rather than being *above* it. Yup. locked or unlocked doesn't change things. I can now click my icons but only on the other screen (that means, when my VM is hidden).

Unfortunately, that also means that clicking "Search" icon on screen A's task bar pops up a search box on screen B (:palmface:)