Taskbar does not Auto-hide all the time Windows 7

Anonymous
2009-11-21T17:32:06+00:00

**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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Anonymous
2010-03-29T18:26:16+00:00

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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Anonymous
2009-11-22T15:00:10+00:00

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.

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Shinmila H - Microsoft Support

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-02-11T14:42:10+00:00

    I've had that problem and it was getting very annoying.  However, I just found that if there are any updates waiting in the system icon trays, this will happen.  In my case, there was a java update waiting.  Unfortunately, Every time I tried to install the Java update, I was getting the error saying something along the lines that the install may not have been successful, and the alert to update stayed in the systray.  So I just removed the Java update from my list of running background processes.  So, that might be an issue for others, check your icons in the sys tray and determine if any of them are trying to alert you of anything such as an update.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-01-29T22:41:52+00:00

    My task bar wouldn't autohide when I had pending windows updates.  As soon as I started downloading and installing the updates the task bar would autohide.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-01-27T20:17:51+00:00

    Check my post about this a few posts above yours... the answer is there if you just read it instead of skipping through it ;)

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