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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2013-05-11T14:17:26+00:00

You'd think that a company that rakes in billions of dollars a year in software sale could come up with a simple fix.

Apparently they aren't the geniuses they make themselves out to be.

One they sell you these product they start on new stuff to sell you.

If you don't have problems with what they have already sold you it would hurt sales of the new products...
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2013-05-11T14:23:09+00:00

You'd think that a company that rakes in billions of dollars a year in software sale could come up with a simple fix. I would think for someone who knows what they are doing it would be as simple as a batch file that would run on start-up telling it when auto-hide is selected "ignore all commands except the mouse input, to unhide"?

Apparently they aren't the geniuses they make themselves out to be.

Once they sell you these products they start on new stuff to sell you.

If you don't have problems with what they have already sold you it would hurt sales of the new products...

...Just look at "Vista" and the billions that bad product made them as soon as 7 came out.

The best investment ever made in Apple is the one Microsoft made in Vista :(
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Anonymous

2013-05-18T17:03:12+00:00

thanks man , this was really helpful .
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