DisableTaskbarOnTop - disable taskbar always on top

[tweaker]

Posted a link the original version as a footnote in a post buried somewhere in another thread. It was only for the 64-bit windows. Now it's tweaked a little and there's both a 32-bit and 64-bit version.​

What it does is emulate the behavior of disabling the "Always on top" option, all previous windows versions, have had for the taskbar. I've used it for around 5 weeks and it has worked fine. The only problem I know of, is that you can't properly use Show Desktop with this.​

See tutorial for further instructions and downloads.​

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/54842-taskbar-always-top-disable-enable.html

 

[scottvf]

Thank you !!!
I was looking for a way to hide the taskbar under other windows.
Hopefully microsoft won't screw us over again and
prevent this fix from working.
(They don't like their customers changing windows to our liking.)

 

[reghakr]

Isn't it much easier just to right-click on the taskbar and change it here?

 

[tweaker]

Isn't it much easier just to right-click on the taskbar and change it here?

what kind of a kick ass win7 version do you have where the "Always on top" checkbox is back?

Note that this isn't the auto-hide thing, it's for having the taskbar always visible but not on top of over windows, ie. if you maximize another window it covers the entire screen. This has been possible in all versions up til win7.

 

[reghakr]

I understand , now, but Bill himself would say how in the Hell did you do that.

It's a kick ass tweaked system.

 

[tweaker]

I understand , now, but Bill himself would say how in the Hell did you do that.

I realized afterwards that you maybe meant the taskbar position on the screen (top, bottom, left, right).


As for how it was done, I believe it involved sacrificing chickens, voodoo, lots of cursingchanting and running naked in the woods.. no wait that last thing was something else :devil:

 

[reghakr]

LOL,

That;s a good analogy.

 

[scottvf]

As for how it was done, I believe it involved sacrificing chickens, voodoo, lots of cursingchanting and running naked in the woods.. no wait that last thing was something else :devil:

I was wondering how that twig got up there??? :roflmao:

 

[dhwitten]

Taskbar always on top travesty

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Tweaker!! You've saved my sanity.

 

[DrMcninja]

thank you so much for this
i've been looking for sometimes like this ever since i installed windows 7

 

[Pickaxe]

I actually took the time to register just to thank you for this. Great job.

 

[Pickaxe]

Sorry to bump, but just a quick heads up: I am now using this together with this program, which toggles taskbar auto-hide. I set it up so the program is launched with a keystroke (in my case, the big useless ThinkVantage button) so I can now toggle 'fullscreen mode' at will. Really useful.

One bug report though when using the tweak in this way:
1) Use a keystroke to activate the program above and show the taskbar
2) Right click taskbar then click on another spot of the taskbar (don't select an option from the right click context menu)
3) Before doing anything else, use a keystroke to activate the program above and hide the taskbar
4) Mouse-over to the taskbar location and it will show and stay on top (same functionality as usual, except it's on top instead of on bottom), clicking outside the taskbar fixes this.

 

[NoelC]

Thanks, though my preference is for auto-hide I know a lot of folks prefer to keep the Taskbar on screen.

Tweaker, you seem to be generating these "oh God thank you so much" fixes for Windows 7 at an unprecedented rate. I'm still enjoying your ShellFolderEx very much.

I do hope you're planning to publish a book (with accompanying CD of course) on making Windows 7 useful again. Something like "Enabling The Windows 7 'To Work' Option".

Keep up the good work.

-Noel

 

[salvinorum]

Its still ridiculous. One would think that after so many complaints from customers, and the fact this feature was available in every windows until 7, MS would just create an update fix, how hard could it be? I tried this fix and its not quite the same.

 

[reghakr]

There's always going to be complaints about the interface.

I only want to see Security and other Update for Windows 7. or we have the same situation as Vista, 100+ fixes clogging up your computer.

 

[NoelC]

Do you mean, reghakr, that adding software such as some of these nice tools Tweaker is providing causes additional processes to run, because I can't get my head around how 100+ fixes clog up anything.

I'm running a rock solid Vista system that's several years old, never crashes, has never been reinstalled, is as lean and fast as the day I finished setting it up (which happened a month after the initial install).

It's Internet Explorer that clogs up computers. Disable its predisposition to install everything from every site and your clog is gone!

-Noel

 

[reghakr]

I'm not saying anything bad about Tweaker's programs, it's Microsoft I was referring to.

I just don't want 100+ patches (as in Vista) clogging up my system and taking up hard drive space.

 

[tweaker]

If, hypothetically, MS were to fix this and some other explorer stuff, I think it would be a one time service pack type of fix. I agree that it might not be the nicest thing if they fix one little thing here and there all in a bunch of different updates.

The main explorer issues some people are having are all contained within one executable and one to three dll files. So for a one shot update that fixes everything, it wouldn't have to clog up anything.

 

[salvinorum]

Patches hardly take up space, or resources for that matter. One of their abilities is to make a system more stable.

Anyhow, this taskbar problem is not some small tweak that some kid came up with, it was an essential part of every Windows until now.

I too used auto-hide until Windows 7, but ironically, now that I really want the taskbar in always-show mode, it's stuck in always-on-top.

That program that was mentioned does not work properly either. Instead of always-on-top, it makes the taskbar always-beneath, which is just as useless (if you drag a window over the taskbar, you can now do it, but clicking the taskbar will not bring it up again, its stuck underneath the windows indefinitely, useless).

Thanx for all the help anyway.

 

[tweaker]

That program that was mentioned does not work properly either. Instead of always-on-top, it makes the taskbar always-beneath, which is just as useless (if you drag a window over the taskbar, you can now do it, but clicking the taskbar will not bring it up again, its stuck underneath the windows indefinitely, useless).

Strange, works for me. When I click the taskbar it's brought to front (above other windows). If I remember correcty it sometimes happened that it got "stuck" below when the program first started, but that only was a one time issue which was resolved by clicking back and forth on a window and then the taskbar again.