Acrobat Pro spews icons across Taskbar after switching Desktop Spaces
When running Windows 11 23H2, and the Taskbar is set to "Never combine buttons", and Acrobat Pro is configured to use Tabs, it initially exhibits the correct behavior of having only one icon/button in the Taskbar. However, when switching Desktop Spaces to another desktop, and then back to the desktop where I'm running Acrobat, suddenly Acrobat has created multiple buttons on the Taskbar for every tab I have open in Acrobat. This is clearly a bug, and additionally none of the new buttons that it created do anything -- I click on them, but it does not take me to the Acrobat app nor switch to the tab where that document exists. There is no way to get Acrobat to consolidate back to a single button except to quit and restart the app. It does this buggy behavior every single time I switch to a different desktop space.
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David
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I ended up switching to Sumatra PDF as a reader. FoxIt is also a good option if you need a PDF editor. These other options are just so much better. Not only does it fix this bug, but they're just faster/lighter software without all the bloat, nags, and junk that in Adobe's PDF products.
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Shadow Lynx commented
This is driving me nuts! I hope it's addressed soon. I also use multiple desktops. In my case, if I try to close one of the "extra nonfunctional" icon/button in the taskbar, it closes the entire application, so I just have to live with the multiple instances when using Acrobat Reader.
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Matt Smith - CDPHE commented
I use multiple desktop spaces in Widows 11, as well. My taskbar is set to combine buttons when taskbar is full. I am fairly new to W11, but several times I have had 1 of the pdfs icons duplicate itself and then all of them are unresponsive until the program is closed and re-opened.
Adobe Acrobat Pro 2017.012.30262
W11 enterprise 22H2Currently, I do not have any pdfs open on the second desktop space. There are no open popups for any of the pdfs (eg save-as confirmation) and none of the pdfs have partial forms entries or are in edit-mode.
When I close the tab that was duplicated, 1 of its taskbar icons is still there, and all of them are still unresponsive. When I close the rest of the tabs (application still open), the taskbar icons are still there (and unresponsive).