It seems the developers who created this update, didn’t check the UI effects implemented by this update properly. So if you have set Blue/Purple background color in Start Screen, you get the same color in jumplist background.Īlso the icons have been changed in Explorer.exe file, that’s why you see big and misplaced Close and Pin icons in jumplist after installing this Windows update. The jumplist starts using the background color of Start Screen, that’s why you see a dark background color in jumplist. The new Explorer.exe file installed by this Windows update contains some incorrect code which breaks the UI of jumplist. Since jumplist is the part of Windows Shell, Explorer.exe file is responsible behind showing jumplist UI along with other UI elements such as Taskbar, Start Screen, Desktop, etc. This update replaces lots of system files in Windows 8.1 including Explorer.exe file and that’s the reason behind this problem. But believe me its not your fault.Īctually this issue occurs due to a Windows Update KB3072318.

Some people think it might be happening due to some settings change or due to using a 3rd party theme. When someone starts facing this problem, he thinks that it might be a side-effect of some Registry tweaks or 3rd party software. Today in this tutorial we are going to tell you the reason behind this problem and the working solution to fix this annoying issue: PROBLEM REASON: Everything is just completely messed up in the jumplist. The 2 icons are offset and overlap the text. Also Close and Pin buttons/icons are displayed very large in size and their position is also incorrect. Usually when you access a program’s jumplist by right-clicking on its icon on Taskbar, you get something similar to following image:īut during this weird problem, whenever a user tries to access jumplist in Taskbar, he gets an ugly looking jumplist UI as shown in following image:Īs you can see, the background color is very dark and the dark text displayed on it doesn’t look good and users can’t read the text properly. This problem is related to jumplist (also known as Taskbar items context menu) which is shown when you right-click on an item present in Taskbar. I have received many emails from AskVG readers about this particular problem. Today we are going to address a very weird and annoying issue present in Windows 8.1 which is bugging a lot of people.

Notepad++ icons theme