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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  1. Anonymous
    2012-03-05T14:17:55+00:00

    The first post on this issue is over two years ago.  Two years and Microsoft has (afaict) never done anything except suggest we run a virus scanner.  Two years?  C'mon!  This is ridiculous!  Is Microsoft complete incompetent?

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-03-03T22:51:18+00:00

    If it were just the taskbar I;'d have just shut auto hide off. It is everything about Microsoft' OS, programs and overall arrogance. Starting with their assumption it is ok to log on to my computer, install updates and restart BY DEFAULT. That pretty much sets the tone.

    I do have some large tables with various formulas but if I am working within the row/cell max framework they give me and using built in functions should it crash so much?

    My recovery pane is literally filled with recovered files. Naturally there is no way (I can see) to sort by name/size/date.

    Working with the OS is insane; I have developed Tourette's syndrome. I'd call the OS nearly criminally bad.

    I just got my Mac this week which is why I bothered to reply to this forum/thread since it was a source (one of many) of much frustration and if I can help convince even one more person to stop using Microsoft it will make me quite happy. In a word I think they suck on every level. And much like you whenever you point out flaws the explicit or implicit reply is it must be something I am doing wrong. Not.  Arrogant lazy programmers who make it clear that the computer belongs to them and you are just visiting. Not. Going from PC to Mac is like going from an abusive relationship to a loving one.

    I'll take the extra $1k for the computer; if you add in the time I spend working around crashes and just plain bad software and multiple by even $20 an hour the Mac pays for itself in a month. At professional rates in a couple days. I just had to get myself off of Excel and now it is clear sailing.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-03-03T22:27:38+00:00

    Well I started this thread and I did seem to fix the problem after a while - not too sure how now. Anyway it does not happen at all these days on my Win7 HP SP1 system.

    However I must say, cncf2007, that seems like an awful lot of expense and hassle to go to just because the taskbar will not hide. You must be doing some impressive stuff with Excel to get it to crash 100 times per month - I've got a few macros and bits of VBA in my spread sheets but I certainly do not get that many crashes even with Office 2007.

    Just as a matter of interest if Win7 is so bad and the extreemly expensive, proprietary Mac  is so good why are you still bothering to follow these forums?

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