I have the developer preview on my netbook still personally so I'll upgrade and start experimenting with it to see what we can do. I was also referring more to the fact that we could fix it with code, but then they change Windows 8 so it works properly again and then we'd have to remove the code
Gets kind of tricky to keep reworking stuff.
The text does indeed get cut off, but that will be a translation/layout issue.
The WLM icon appears correctly on my taskbar both with and without pinning it.
I'm using build 8250 of Win8 Consumer Preview and I'm assuming you would be too. Maybe a restart or reinstall of WLM would solve it? I'm not 100% sure what's causing it now to be honest. It could even be a conflict with some other software on your PC
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