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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2010-04-05T04:18:59+00:00

As I mentioned before, that's not a bug, it's a feature, though perhaps one that's falling out of date.

Once you figure out what app is pushing the Taskbar open (presumably to notify you of something), you can usually take steps to quash that behavior in the app*.*

-Noel
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2010-04-16T16:26:28+00:00

I took Noel Carboni's suggestion and looked at all of my hidden icons.

I had a Google icon that was informing me that my default search engine was trying to be changed. I unchecked the option to receive notifications when these changes occur. Now my windows toolbar hides!

What Microsoft needs to do is add a feature to the taskbar that reports what application is causing the taskbar to appear.

Yikes!

Good luck resolving your taskbar issues, guys.

--Griff
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2010-04-21T16:45:08+00:00

Thank you ZackRy! This has been driving me crazy for a month and a half since buying my brand new Dell computer with Windows 7! I tried your fix and it finally works. Did you find out if there was any adverse affect to doing this? Now if I can just have someone figure out why I have sound selectively and intermittently....

Cebette
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