Windows 7: Taskbar Always On Top - Disable or Enable

Thanks for a great fix Tweaker. Is it possible to get the source code to this app ? I work in a corporate environment and they don't really like us to install anything on our machines unless we can prove that it's not malicious (i.e. comes from a big company and is signed code or we get source and can compile it).

Hmm, I will try it again. It did not work the first time I tried it, I haven't tried it again. If you did make it, I of course appreciate your effort, it is far more then what I can say of MS, which appears to be ignoring this issue (I'm not sure how to reach MS, is there an avenue to them directly with ideas, after all, their whole advertising campaign is based on people reaching them with ideas and them listening!)

I wouldn't rule out that maybe something is differing on your system, so it doesn't work as intended, but it's possible it was just that occasional (temporary) little glitch you encountered.

I'd also prefer if MS would fix it and hope they will at some point, as this after all is an emergency solution for those who really want it disabled, and value that more than the few (known) minor issues such as not working together with Show Desktop.

The glitch with "show desktop" doesn't bother me at all, in fact, it works fine when I hover over the show desktop, and that is all I ever do anyway, I very rarely use the show desktop, as everything I have is within a hotkey or visible icon away, very organized.

I decided not to use the fix, and just accept the "always on top". Its funny how I have used auto-hide for the past 15 years in every windows since 95, yet now that there is a glitch with not auto-hiding it, I still put up with it. This tells me that Windows 7 is a success, as even with a glitch I like the taskbar functionality so much that I do not even consider the auto-hide option, its my go-to place for everything now. It helps to have a widescreen 24" monitor :-), the taskbar hardly takes up space anyway. I always looked at the taskbar as a pain in the past, and replaced it with various other proggies. Not any more, now I use it, along with some add ons such as ObjectDock and Google desktop.

Thanks again for all the effort and info.

I hope someone bumps this thread if and when MS fixes this problem officially.

The latest windows update creates an error with disabletaskbarontop.exe.
I guess microsoft really doesn't want us to customize our desktop.

Thanks for the heads up, will try to have a look.

(This probably has less to with MS trying to prevent anything, just that they updated explorer for other fixes.)

New release is available now, it has added support for the KB977074 update.

You have to run this every time you turn on the computer?

yes, or put it in the Start Menu - Startup folder to have it run automatically


(it only actually runs for a fraction of a second and exits again, but that has to be done every time windows starts up or at log in)