Taskbar does not Auto-hide all the time Windows 7

Julie,  'You' don't have to pin anything to the taskbar to get this problem and you don't necessarially have to unpin things to eliminate it. I had the problem many months ago as you'll see from my earlier posts but I haven't had it for a long while now. However I have not done what you recommended. 

Just out of interest I had a look at the taskbar to see what I had there, pinned and unpinned. What I see is that I have IE8, Explorer, Firefox and Windows Media Centre all pinned, and Skype and Windows Live Hotmail unpinned. I repeat, I don't get the problem

• it is possible you had another application there that you had explicitly pinned to the taskbar, or perhaps it pinned itself there as part of its install process and unpinning (or uninstalling maybe) is what resolved your issue, and who knows, perhaps mine as well.

Despite all the posts here I don't think anyone has been able to definitively analyse the problem and explain what is happening unfortunately - if someone were able to do this it would certainly resolve a lot of frustration.

Bernard

Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit - Dell XPS420 3GB

This is a program-specific problem related to what you have pinned to the taskbar.

My husband had this problem with a brand-new HP. Yes, we checked Autohide. Yes, we checked unlock taskbar. The problem continued. Then we right-clicked on each of the icons in the taskbar, including IE, the media center, etc., and unpinned each one of them until the taskbar would autohide. No problem now.

There are at least four things I LOVE about you Macophiles:

1. You FREQUENTLY enter sites like this one (you seek them out) claiming to be PC users so you can falsely attack Microsoft / Windows.

2. You collectively HAMMERED on XP, but once 7 hit the streets, XP is suddenly the best thing since sliced bread.

3. You portray the Mac as if it were a silky smooth, flawless and problem free machine.  The Mac OS has more than it's fair share of problems.  Just ask anyone who's gone from a PC to a Mac, then back to a PC, or take a look at the amazing number of Mac TROUBLESHOOTING sites on the net.

4. You spend so much time and energy defending your Macs that many of you now lack the intellectual honesty and emotional maturity to admit it when your machines malfunction. One of my best friends is RENTING a Mac "as we speak" while his three year old Mac sits in the shop for the third time.  It's been there for almost two weeks... seems the service department of this Mac-only store is always*buried.*OH! Wait! Wait!  I know... it's because they're busy servicing 15 and 20 years old Macs, because people who buy them use them forever, right? 

Obviously not all Mac users fall into this group - so don't take offense. It's the FOLLOWERS of Obi-Wan-Steve-Jobs, the "spoiled sixteen year old schoolgirl" of the business world.  (This is, by the way, a well documented, undeniable fact.) He's never been able to accept that the PC took over the world, and he's been in negative defense mode ever since - an amazingly unintelligent response to the success of the PC. The ONLY other company that has done this throughout its life is Pepsi - and I submit its at the core of why Coke continues to outsell them globally. 

The competition is KICKING YOUR ROYAL YOU-KNOW-WHAT, so what do you do?  Why, go on the ATTACK, of course!

It plays out this way: EVERY time we PC users see one of those Mac versus PC tv commercials, we happily lift our middle fingers and say to ourselves "this is for you, Jobs."   Why?  It's simple... Steve Jobs and company don't seem to understand that when they attack the PC, they are actually attacking the people who use them!  Not exactly what I'd call "Einstein-ian." 

Ultimately Apple - and its loyal followers - continue to be its own worst enemy.