Auto hide Taskbar not working

[Fliplip]

Ive noticed just recently that even though i have it set to Auto hide its not.
Is there any other way of forcing it to stay as it should?
Ive tried turning it off and then on and it works for a short time then gets stuck on again.
Im using 7201 x86.

Cheers.

 

[mxosder16]

Wow, not working here on 7201 x86 either.
Maybe a bug...

Here is a screen...



The screen will go down like it's supposed to but then it'll come right back up.
Weird

 

[Orbital Shark]

That's odd, it's working for me. 7201 x86

 

[Robert Cartman]

For me it works well too! interesting
Haven't you got an icon on the notification area what wants to show itself? just an idea

 

[Fliplip]

For me it works well too! interesting
Haven't you got an icon on the notification area what wants to show itself? just an idea

I was thinking along those lines and will investigate that tonight.
The only thing i can think might be causing it is DU meter as thats the last thing i have installed. I might take that out and see what happens.

@orbital. Not really odd as loads of people are having various problems with this (and all) OS's. Its down to the individual configuration i expect.
What works for some doesn't work for others. Not ideal but par for the course.
My biggest issue (and this will force me to abandon W7 this week) is i keep looseing video. Tried everything but after a ceratin amount of time (hours not mins). In Safe mode it SEEMS to be ok but each morning i wake up and the only thing i can do is to re boot. Not good fo rany apps that were working overnight.
XP was working fine and im now wondering why i bothered with W7, as much as i love it.

 

[Captain Zero]

I run DU Meter 3.5 and it works fine, so does the auto-hide.

 

[Fliplip]

I run DU Meter 3.5 and it works fine, so does the auto-hide.

Yeah, it was just a thought.
I notice when i set auto hide to on or off the screen icons jump in to place so it seems like the setting is being made and program windows act correctly.

 

[Fliplip]

Well i checked the notification areas and i noticed Nokia PC suite was still sitting there. closed the program and now the Taskbar seems to be hiding as it should.
So thanks all but special thanks to Roberto for the suggestion.

Dave.

 

[Robert Cartman]

You are welcome! It was just an idea.

 

[Fliplip]

Its somethin gi did look in to but as none were flashing or looked like they needed attention i didnt think that was the answer.
I should have guessed it would be a useless pice of software causing it.
I've only used the Nokia stuff a couple fo times at home and it shouldnt have even been open.

Dave.

 

[Robert Cartman]

I also use the nokia software but I don't let it start automatically, because I also use it rarely. I start it only when its needed.

 

[Fliplip]

I dont normally let it start on boot up either.
In fact i had only installed it on this PC to do a back up. I guess i forgot to re configure it.

 

[lebadbob]

I think this may answer some of your issue, if not all of it.

Check the icons in your notification area. If there is a notification, say, in the Action Center, then the taskbar will not hide until the notification is responded to. (Check the colorless icons first- they are the ones related to the system.)

Also, if you have a pending update notification, or an "update completed" notification, this will also keep the taskbar unhidden.

I hope this helps!

 

[awaqeded]

I've used auto-hide taskbar option for years and have had to deal with it breaking on all the windows versions. Windows 7 is no different much to my dismay. It seems the same as with Vista - if you click on the systray notification to quick it will break auto-hide. In my case I just plugged in my USB drive and I couldn't get auto-hide back until I disconnected it.
Another method I found in Vista when all else failed is to log off and log on.
I think in XP I ended up just disabling all notifications because auto hide was so buggy, I hope I don't have to do that with win7.
Does anyone know if there is a service that can be cleared for notifications?

 

[Uzi]

For the past 2 days my task bars auto hide was not working.

Thinking I might find an answer here I used google.

Well, short story fix.
I opened the hidden icons section and right clicked on Microsoft Security Essentials
to bring that up.
Whatever was blocking the taskbar cleared out and it is hiding again.
From playing around with the Hidden Icons bit I think that entire area is buggy and it causes
issues with the taskbar autohide function.

YMMV

 

[aptx]

in my case, its usually firefox and explorer. i just open that window(s). or just kill the main explorer.exe and restart it, that's all!

 

[Rave79]

This was handy because it lead me to understand that the task bar would not auto hide until I clicked on the calendar reminders in Outlook.

I also unticked: Outlook > Options > Preferences > Email Options > Advanced Email Options > Show an envelope icon in notification area.

 

[Philmarcus]

Here is a remedy I read elsewhere, seemingly bizarre but it works in win 7 pro x64, and the problem has chased me since I ran XP, maybe even Win 98. Ready?

Find teh folder \windows\prefetch. Move all its contents, including the contained folder to some backup cubbyhole for safety. That's it!?

 

[zdoe]

ok - i know i'm resurrecting an old thread, but i spent 2 hours on this. most of the remedies that are on this thread or elsewhere only provide intermittent help - sometimes just a few seconds. it seems that on 7 the auto-hide actually DOES work, where in xp it only did intermittently. but at the heart of the problem is that it's trying to help you by being counter-intuitively dynamic.

alas: you CAN get it to auto-hide & stay that way if you make sure that no icons are visible that are trying to alert you about something. the main culprits are the other parts of the OS - 7 security center & updater. disable those, and you're well on your way.

the reason why killing/restarting explorer and or prefetch appear to help is that those two alerters are taking a breather before attempting to bug you again.

(it may be that drag/dropping them to the "hidden" portion behind the arrow may also save your beef.)

 

[sittingstump]

Uninstall Norton antivirus

Norton antivirus came with my Windows 7
After I uninstalled it, my taskbar autohide feature started working again.
Hope this helps a few people.
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