Many times, when I run VLC Portable, after watching something in full screen (e.g. episodes of Lost, most recently), there will be another program running on the taskbar beside VLC. It won't have a name and its icon will be the default Windows .exe (white window with solid blue title bar). Clicking the taskbar entry twice makes it disappear.
I can't find anything out of the ordinary in the Task Manager.
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That's just part of the full-screen window, not another app. Sometimes it gets left behind. The local version of VLC does it, too.
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Oh yeah, forgot about that. IIRC VLC used to have two windows anyway. The controls and the video output. That was why for a couple years I used it only as a backup player. Now it's all in one window, but I guess that's the same thing, more or less.
Thanks, glad to know it's not something unique or unexpected.