Application Compatibility

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:

• active-win, #12341

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