taskbar not on top

[postwarbreakout]

hello,

since a restart yesterday, the taskbar always gets overlapped by maximized windows. i can't find any option like "taskbar always on top" and don't know what to do. it is soo annoying

 

[Airbot]

hello,

since a restart yesterday, the taskbar always gets overlapped by maximized windows. i can't find any option like "taskbar always on top" and don't know what to do. it is soo annoying

Hi postwarbreakout,

Do you have the taskbar on auto hide? That may be why it's overlapping, then again maybe not. I would suggest locking the taskbar too if you haven't. Just right click on the task bar and go to properties and it will say "taskbar location on screen" click on the bar and pick what you want.


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[Brink]

Hello Postwarbreakout, and welcome to Seven Forums.

I would agree with Airbot. It seems like you may have Auto-hide turned on.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2200-taskbar-auto-hide-turn-off.html


If you still want the taskbar at the top of the screen, then this will help show you how as well.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1066-taskbar-move-location-desktop-screen.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Airbot]

Yes, Brink has many tutorials. It would be wise to browse through them all.


Tutorials - Windows 7 Forums

 

[postwarbreakout]

thanks for the answers, but i couldn't solve the problem. the taskbar isn't on auto-hide and locked too. all programs act like the taskbar isn't there, like the toast-message in windows live messenger. normally it appears over the taskbar, but now it's total at the bottom of the screen.. i'm really becoming desperate

 

[Brink]

Postwarbreakout,

Could you post a screenshot of this to help us see exactly what you mean? It may help narrow it down quicker for you.

 

[postwarbreakout]

sure. sorry if my explanations are a bit strange, english isn't my mother-tongue

 

[postwarbreakout]

well, seems to be caused by some softeware. re-installed windows 7 as upgrade, problem still there. i have no idea which program it could be.. seems like i'm the only betatester with that problem

 

[Airbot]

Very strange indeed.

 

[Brink]

Postwarbreakout,

You may be in the F11 full screen mode. Try pressing F11 when the window is overlapping everything to see if that can return it to a normal maximzed window.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[postwarbreakout]

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

 

[Airbot]

I just changed my taskbar to use big icons instead of using small icons like I normally use. When I did set it to use big, it blocked the watermark for a minute then it was back to normal, showing the watermark on top of the bigger taskbar. And if you unlock the taskbar and pull it up one level, it will block the watermark.



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[postwarbreakout]

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?

 

[Brink]

Postwarbreakout,

You should also send feedback to Microsoft about this to help make them aware of this. If it's a bug, then hopefully they will get it fixed in the next release of Windows 7.

 

[rautiocination]

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?

 

[rautiocination]

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!

 

[Brink]

Rautiocination,

This can help make enabling and disabling the taskbar to always be on top easier to do.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/54842-taskbar-always-top-disable-enable.htmlhttp://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3101-taskbar-always-top-enable-disable.html

Shawn

 

[Notsubtle]

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