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Video Playback Progress Bar Behavior and Other Issues

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Description

### Microsoft PowerToys version

0.96.1

### Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

### Area(s) with issue?

Peek

### Steps to reproduce

When using Peek to play a video, click the play/pause button while the video is paused.
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### ✔️ Expected Behavior

Only the play/pause button should toggle, and the progress bar should remain unchanged. It should automatically hide after the mouse remains still or moves out of the window for a period of time.

### ❌ Actual Behavior

The progress bar first hides when playback starts, then immediately reappears because the mouse does not move out of the window quickly enough 😅.

Additionally, here are other issues that are difficult to reproduce but have occurred multiple times:
The computer may freeze (with keyboard and mouse operations becoming unresponsive) due to Peek's maximize/windowed mode transitions or focus redirection during video playback. After waiting for some time, File Explorer may crash and restart or return to normal. However, even if it recovers, the window sizes opened in File Explorer may change.
This issue may be related to Mouse Without Borders. After recovery, Mouse Without Borders may experience complete failure of keyboard input and mouse operations (functionality can be restored by toggling Borderless Mouse off and on again).

### Additional Information

OS version:Win10 Pro 22H2 19045.6691 / Win11 Pro 24H2 26100.7623
System language:Chines
User Installation
Running as Administrator

### Other Software

None

※Due to my limited proficiency in English, I have used AI translation to avoid unclear sentences. I have confirmed that the English content of these issues, when translated back into Chinese using AI, is accurate.

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Research direction

Start with the Peek entry point and reproduce the video play/pause and progress-bar behavior on the listed Windows versions. Investigate the reported maximize/windowed transitions, focus redirection, and related input failures; done means the progress bar follows the expected hiding behavior and the reported playback freezes are isolated or fixed.

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Assessment

Domain
desktop
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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