Bradley Ward

I appreciate the multiple detailed replies on how Evernote should work. It does appear from these replies that Evernote appears to be a bit non-standard from normal Windows applications in that clicking the X in the upper right hand of the window does not do the exact same thing as a menu invoked (File | Exit) type of command. That is fine provided it worked as it is supposed to. But in my case it does not work as many of you have described in this thread. Here is what I am experiencing: I start Evernote by clicking on a shortcut on the main Windows 10 taskbar across the bottom of my screen. Evernote starts. The main Evernote window appears, and the shortcut icon on the taskbar also changes its appearance to indicate that Evernote is an active process. When I am finished using Evernote, I click on the X in the upper right hand corner of the screen. The Evernote window disappears. BUT: The shortcut icon on the Windows taskbar does not go back to the non-running appearance. It indicates that Evernote is still running. And I I hover over the shortcut with the mouse, the small popup window shows a minimized version of the no longer visible Evernote main window. AND: If I click on the shortcut icon on the taskbar the next time I want to use Evernote, nothing happens. Evernote does not start, and no window opens. Evernote is hung at this point. As I'm a software engineer by trade, I of course know how to open the Task Manager and see what processes are running. What I find is a long list of Evernote processes. I have to start killing each active Evernote process one by one and eventually I will kill the one that is hung up. The rest of the processes then exit. I can then run Evernote by clicking on the taskbar shortcut. After writing this reply, I ran Evernote and got an upgrade notification. This problem has been going on for multiple past versions of Evernote and I always update to the latest version. I just updated today to version 10.38.3-win-ddl-public (3437), Editor: v149.0.18202, Service: v1.53.4. If this update fixes this problem I will report back on this thread. Thanks for the help!

Every time I use Evernote on my Windows 10 PC, when I am done and close the window, the Evernote process fails to exit correctly. From then on, when I try to run Evernote again, no window appears. I then run Task Manager and find that there are many different Evernote processes running. I can only get Evernote to run if I use Task Manager to kill all existing Evernote processes that are running in the background.