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
    2011-05-29T03:49:09+00:00

    I bought a new PC, it came with W 7 Home Premium, I had previously had XP and I also had a laptop with VISTA (Vista was the WORST excuse of an OS I have seen and I have used Windows since ver.3)

    W 7 was a dream come true in it's usability and so on, all was working fine till about 2 weeks ago when things started to go pear shaped, my taskbar refused to autohide, regardless of what I ticked or unticked, looking through here I realised that MS are passing out the BS again, why I say that is that the replies are like snatching at straws, (try this and see if it works! try that and see if it works!) 

    I noticed that all this started to happen after my Automatic Updates installed a few things, now I know I could have gone back to a previous restore point, but I figured it would only get updated again and Which Update was it that was the culprit?

    The other thing that is happening is that some programs that are supposed to start with Windows no longer autostart and I have to start them manually, in which case they run perfectly normally until next reboot then I have restart them manually again.

    SOLUTION (of sorts, for the auho hide at least)

    I was becoming really frustrated  with not seeing the bottom of panes so I thought, what if I change the screen resolution?

    I did, immediately the taskbar hid itself and continued to work, I then restored the screen size to what I always had it at, viola, the taskbar still continued to autohide.

    This was a few moments ago so I have yet to reboot and see if it still works?

    I wonder if it will also allow the autostart to work too?

    So all of you people that are having the problem, post back here and let me know if you solved the problem using this tip!

    I would also love to know a solution to the autostart problem?

    Regards.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-05-25T13:49:40+00:00

    Same here.  W7-64bit, if it makes any difference.

    K

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-05-24T06:34:18+00:00

    Same problem here and the suggestions did not work

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