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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2011-01-19T01:16:15+00:00

Hi all, I see this is a pretty old thread, but I found it today because my taskbar began acting the exact same way JUST TODAY. I read most of the replies/ideas from earlier, but none seemed to fix the problem, so I simply did a System Restore back to the previous day restore point, and it did fix it(at least for me). Unfortunately I have no idea what caused it, as I did not install/modify any programs or software, but I do a fair amount of YouTube and whatnot, so it could have been anything. Sorry I didn't find the root cause, only a solution that worked for me and hopefully a few others right? Because a simple System Restore cured it for me(and because it never did it til today, and was eliminated immediately after the problem began), I am leaning toward this NOT being a Microsoft hardware/software issue, but rather something I did or possibly something off the web did...but then again I am no expert by any means!! ;-) Good luck to all!!
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2011-01-19T00:09:44+00:00

NIKOLAJ82 solved the problem 2 years ago people :

[quote]Often times Windows will refuse to hide because it mistakenly believes there is still a tooltip balloon open. (I see this a lot myself with APC's Powerchute Personal Edition.) Unfortunately the only way to get your taskbar to properly hide again (and I don't mean uncheck the "Keep the taskbar ontop of other widows" option for a quick fix) is to restart the machine so that Windows resets the tooltip balloon status. What a pain!

Thankfully through my inability to let it go and hatred for this problem I have written a file that will fix this! (Works great on my Vista machine!) All the program does is overwrite the phantom tooltip balloon and then clear the tooltip balloon and Tahdah!

The tooltip will stay up for 10 seconds so that you can read the info on it (just telling you what it does and how you can contact me if you have any problems). You can close this tooltip balloon like any other by clicking on it, or if you mouse over the program tray icon it will close itself instantly.

http://www.multiupload.com/94SQZ50YK0

And here is a pic of how it looks in action.

http://i44.tinypic.com/1hzzn.jpg

I really hope this helped.[/quote]

Just download the software via multiupload-link and run it... it solves the problem!

This is a Microsoft bug as windows forgets that the balloon tip is not there anymore.
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