A number of our users are seeing problems with how Coreldraw works with Windows 10. I touched on this problem in another post at https://community.coreldraw.com/talk/coreldraw_graphics_suite_2017/f/coreldraw-2017/55871/opening-files-from-windows-explorer
I've been looking into this further, and there seems to be a major problem with how Windows 10 handles Coreldraw. If you have no files open and minimise Coreldraw, it gets put into 'Background Apps' and can be seen through Task Manager. When then attempting to reopen Coreldraw, a second instance is then opened, and the original instance is left in background apps, wasting resources.
If you double click a file to open it, or try to open it through Quick Launch, it seems to try to open the file in the background instance, so nothing ever happens. This is hugely frustrating.
We've tried all sorts from ensuring everything is fully updated, turning off background processes in Corel, resetting workspaces, etc. I've attached a GIF showing the sort of thing that is happening. This is recreatable on all of our computers.
Minimising when a file is open does not cause this problem. Only when no files are open. Quite often we will work on a file, finish and close it but want to leave Coreldraw running as we will be using it again very soon. At the moment though we are having to go into task manager every time to End Task on Corel before it will restart.
Does no one else have this problem at all? I find it hard to believe. I've even tested this on my home computer and it's doing the same there. This is a massively annoying issue. I shouldn't have to run task manager and force close Corel every other time I want to open a new file!
Have you tried pressing the Alt-TAB key several times to go to CorelDRAW process?
I can confirm that something VERY odd happens. Running Task Manager with CGS minimised in this situation gives me an error saying TM doesn't have enough memory, and Firefox becomes very unstable - it's crashed three times as I enter this reply
I don't know if anyone from Corel is reading the forum today, BUT THIS NEEDS ESCALATING.
I've not seen that. In fact, mine will happily minimise into background apps and sit there all day without disturbing anything, and I generally don't notice until i try to open a CDR file and nothing happens. It is definitely a severe issue with how CorelDraw works with Windows 10 and certainly needs escalating. As usual, the silence from Corel is deafening.