Taskbar does not Auto-hide all the time Windows 7

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**Original Title**Windows 7 taskbar won't consistantly autohide. After changing the properties to Autohide and clicking 'OK', it hides for a brief second then reappears. Other times it autohides as desired.

My taskbar autohide behaves in an erratic pattern. When I have an alert, it autohides after resolving the alert, but other times it refuses to go away, even if I, once again, open the properties, uncheck autohide, recheck autohide, then click 'apply' and/or 'OK'. As I type this, the taskbar stubbornly remains!

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In the "good old days" applicaitons would often un-hide the Taskbar so their notification icons could show an updated status and they could ensure it would be seen. I think this method has fallen out of favor, but older applications that haven't been updated could still be sending the commands to the system to show the Taskbar. Is it possible that you have an older app in the notification area that's affecting the Taskbar as described?

What notification area icons do you have (and what versions)?

For what it's worth, I just tried disabling Avast Pro 5.0 and it still allowed the Taskbar to auto-hide.

-Noel

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Hi Lamargene,

Welcome to Microsoft Answers.

See that “Lock the Taskbar” is not enabled. If it is, you may disable it by right-clicking on taskbar and unchecking it.

Still the same behavior?

If such is the case, I’d recommend you to download Microsoft Security Essentials on your computer. This will make sure that any virus, spyware or other malicious software on the computer is wiped out completely. Also if the weird behavior is due to any one of those, running the essentials will fix it.

Download it from

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

Do you see any changes after running the essentials? Post back and let us know.

Regards,

Shinmila H - Microsoft Support

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2009-12-29T23:35:07+00:00

Shinmila, Are you really suggesting that everyone with this problem is running the same rouge piece of software - if you take a look in Google you will find 278,000 hits with "Windows 7 taskbar autohide" - I think this is a Microsoft issue and I would like to see Microsoft step up to fixing it. Please pass this problem back to development.

Bernard

Vista Home Premium 32, SP2 - Dell XPS-420 3GB
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Anonymous

2009-12-28T02:41:20+00:00
Hi everyone,

Under normal circumstances this does not happen. Please verify if a third party application is responsible for this behavior.

Clean boot would be the perfect practice to determine the culprit application. A clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

Steps to perform clean boot:

   1. Click Start, type msconfig in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.

      If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Continue.

   2. On the General tab, click Selective Startup.

   3. Under Selective Startup, click to clear the Load Startup Items check box.

   4. Click the Services tab, click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box, and then click Disable All.

   5. Click OK.

   6. When you are prompted, click Restart.

   7. After the computer starts, check whether the problem is resolved.

If the issue is resolved check which third party is causing the problem by referring the steps from the link given below:

How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7**http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135**

Note: Ensure to put the computer to normal state.

**To Reset the computer to start as usual:**1. Click Start, type msconfig.exe in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.

If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.
1. On the General tab, click the Normal Startup option, and then click OK.
2. When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Restart.
Hope this helps in determining the application causing this behavior.

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Shinmila H - Microsoft Support

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Anonymous

2009-12-26T23:03:18+00:00

Microsoft - PLEASE WAKE UP. This is a bug in Win 7. When is it going to be fixed as it is extremely annoying and prevents you from accessing the bottom of many webpages which renders it USELESS!.
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