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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Anonymous

2012-02-25T05:15:41+00:00

Hi everyone,

I have noticed (as have a few people before me) that the reason windows doesn't want to auto-hide the taskbar is because an application wants to be sure that it's notifications can be seen.

In particular I have found that the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" application has this effect.

I have also found that once I removed my connected device, the taskbar would once again auto-hide.

Hope this helped.
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Anonymous

2012-02-16T01:44:48+00:00

The first solution on this list worked fine for me. Solved the problem.
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Anonymous

2012-02-15T11:30:04+00:00

Bump, Killed my problem, and ye, my productivity is back to it's usual. Fruastration level is idling just above Zero. 100 points for the fix. Yup, MS get it up! Going to try roll out through Login Script or Group Policy :)
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