taskbar not on top

sorry, f11 was the first thing i tried
the windows watermark is also behind the taskbar i just recognized..really strange, airbot you're right

i tried changing every single option in the taskbar settings, but nothing helped. is there maybe a registry option to get the taskbar in the foreground?

I have the exact same problem, but so far my registry investigations have turned up nothing, for some reason it keeps resetting them. The relevant key seems to be:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2

While I couldn't tell you exactly what each bit does, if you google StuckRects2 there is some info floating around, none of it RE: win 7 unfortunately.

I have been trying to change the value to what my working windows 7 install has, which is:

28 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF
02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
4A 00 00 00 30 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
4A 00 00 00 1A 04 00 00

However it keeps changing it back to its normal value when I reboot/logoff, so i'll keep trying and keep ya posted if i get it fixed.

I am curious as to what caused it, I just upgraded from vista and i suspect it may have been MultiMon or ObjectDock which caused the problems, were you running either of these before you upgraded?

BOOOYAH!

I fixed it!

basically, just follow instructions here:

Disable Taskbar always on top (W2K) - PC Tools Community Forum

you need to download the ls-tools from the link above

all i needed to change was the value AFTER the FF FF FF FF to 02

then i started cmd.exe as an administrator, went to where i extracted ls-tools, and ran the program with appropriate flags like so:

down /R /Q /F

this will will restart the system and voila! taskbar on top

good luck fixing it!

Don't know about postwarbreakout.....but f11 worked for me!! thanks :)