Invisible Icon with Windows 10

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I just noticed I have an invisible icon on the extreme right of my dock with Windows 10.  I cannot remove it.  The icon properties are:

 

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ApplicationFrameHost.exe

 

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

             

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Obviously, that must be the invisible reply?  B)

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I sometimes get that. Turns out there are two...one is the settings window and the other is the photo viewer. I click on them and close them, the invisible icon vanishes. Why it happens is a mystery to me. It doesn't happen on W8.1, only on W10

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That's because under Windows 8.x Metro apps could only run full screen, under Windows 10 they run in a window. Since Metro and Win32 applications are two very different beasts, to pull this off Microsoft uses a Win32 'container' window to hold/host the Metro application.

The problem is that these windows break the old rules for what should appear on the taskbar or not, and MS doesn't care. MS controls the Windows Taskbar, so for them this is a non-problem. For 3rd party applications, the ApplicationFrameHost window must be treated as a special case.

I also run into this when I was getting Nexus ready for Windows 10 back in August.