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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2013-02-13T08:07:23+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!.

Absolutely agree, this is a high priority bug. I just purchased Win 7 x64 but I'm still using XP 32 as my main machine because of this bug. The taskbar is stuck "always on top" (option for this seems to have been taken away) and doesn't auto-hide (except when it does, any pattern as to why I haven't been able to determine). But most of the time it doesn't, making virtually every application and web browser unuseable due to the inability to see or click on the bottom portion.
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Anonymous

2013-02-13T08:08:21+00:00

Hi

Try right clicking the small rectangular bar at the bottom right corner on the task bar and select show desktop. This seems to reset the windows positions and hide the task bar. Hope this helps, it fixed my problem.

Cheers

This didn't work for me. (And we shouldn't have to do ANYTHING for this vital feature to work!)
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Anonymous

2013-02-14T15:29:04+00:00

I found Skype in the taskbar would kill auto hide, So I killed Skype.
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