The taskbar may not show the application name correctly when using a Terminal Server RemoteApp

Applies To

Windows Vista Business Windows Vista Enterprise Windows Vista Home Basic Windows Vista Home Premium Windows Vista Starter Windows Vista Ultimate Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 Ultimate Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 Foundation Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Windows Server 2008 Standard

Symptoms

When working with a Terminal Server RemoteApp connection, the name of the application in the taskbar does not appear as expected. For Example, when connected to the application Product Studio, the name listed in the taskbar appears as (Remote):Your expected result would be that when connected to the application Product Studio, the name listed in the taskbar appears as Application Name (Remote).

Cause

This issue occurs because the local taskbar does not receive the EVENT_OBJECT_NAMECHANGE event from the system due to a timing issue. The EVENT_OBJECT_NAMECHANGE is needed to update the taskbar title information.

Resolution

Note: The issue does not affect how the application works. You can safely ignore this issue. To work around this issue, the taskbar can be refreshed by closing and then re-starting the application.