Taskbar auto hide not working vista

Does this suggest something wrong with the WinWait? I've tried countless other workarounds and stuff to try and get it to work but to no avail. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks in advance. Also note that for multi-line scripts the code have to start on the line below the hotkey label. Sorry, my script doesn't toggle autohide, it merely hides or unhides the taskbar. But it works for me ;-.

Forget the above post, I've fixed it! Re-read Tonne's post and noticed the comment about starting on the line below, moved it down so it now looks like this: ;Open Taskbar properties, toggle autohide taskbar, apply and close window ;! Thanks again Tonne! I am using Vista with the task bar on my screens right edge. With SKAN's script, the taskbar becomes invisible except for the start button and then I can move windows to the space previously for taskbar. If I toggle back the task bar, it simply overlays the windows in it position.

I've borrowed heavily from the code shown above and added a loop to re-hide the taskbar when Windows shows it again before I'm ready to see it.

I'm sure that my code can be written more elegantly, but this is working excellently for me on bit Vista. Hi all I am impressed with this running post, but I have NO idea where one writes this code. Can you tell me Or do I just need to hire someone to do this for me? Hello, can anybody tell me how I use these scripts? Because I am using the Software "ObjectDock" which creates me a new taskbar. There I checked to hide the original taskbar. But sometimes I would like the original one to show, too This same issue has been with Microsoft Windows operating systems for years now!

This happens on XP x64 too. I do not understand how a problem like this. I use R-drive image to back up my C rive, as I am not completely confident with system restore, so I first made an image of my C rive, so I could recover if systems restore screwed my system. Then I proceeded to do a system restore, to a date about a week ago. When I rebooted my system, the task bar started hiding like normal, so I undid the system restore and, after booting to like I was earlier, and the task bar to my surprise still acted normal.

I was going to try and find out what update had screwed my system, but I was not able to as like I say after playing the game to find out what update caused the problem. I do not know is you want to try the steps I did, hopefuly, and then undo the system restore.

The only risk is if the system restore does not work properly, you might end up with a vegetable puter. Any way it is something you need to evaluate, is it worth the risk or live with the non hiding task bar. Good luck.

Not sure if this will help, but no harm trying! In Taskbar properties,. Check this: Auto-hide the taskbar Uncheck this: Keep the taskbar on top of other windows. I just started having the same problem, Maybe its time for a MAC. This has been driving me nuts for weeks now so I empathise with everyone here. Good news is that I eventually fixed it.

For XP, find your Prefetch folder usually under Windows and delete the contents. Restart your machine. It's been working for two days now. Having the exact same problem here. I also had this problem in XP on my older computer.

I got tired of deleting the prefetch folder over and over so I just left it till I got a newer machine.

Of course I thought they had this fixed in vista, but clearly I was mistaken Hopefully they will get this fixed soon, but as someone above mentioned, this thread is almost a year old with no replies from any staff Wow, I never imagined that something like this would be a problem, but sure enough, my taskbar stopped autohiding yesterday.

I've been running XP Home forever and "poof" it starts happening. It's too bad Microsoft doesn't even consider it enough of an issue to address it here. I'm really beginning to like those MAC commercials This is the same solution for the same problem that XP had. Nice to see they still have not done anything about it. I also have this problem I have had more problems with Vista than I ever had with XP.

Unfortunately, I am trapped by Microsoft's monopoly, since the switch to anything else would be costly in terms of a learning curve in addition to the financial burden and time consimunig process of transferring software to another operating system. Back up the entire folder in another location just in case anything goes wrong.

Delete the entire contents of the original folder located as described above. I've been running XP Home for years with autohide and never had an issue. Just upgraded to Vista Home Premium last week. Autohide was fine until some updates the past couple days. Noticed it wasn't working this morning and found your posts here while searching for a fix. Deleted contents. Autohide is working fine now. As some things just don't seem to change, here's a one liner I'm going to use when the taskbar get's stuck the next time:.

Apparently their behaviour is the same as any other windows. Works on XP, should work on the rest like vista too. Check your system tray. Any program that has an "! Simply disable the program's alerts or go to task manager and kill the process. I use AVG and don't use its email scanner, so it is constantly telling me that it is not scanning my email. Killing the process let's the taskbar autohide again. I'm not sure about vista, but at least as far as XP is concerned, maximised programs WILL still fill the space behind the taskbar.

So having the taskbar constantly up means your losing the all important slide control and possibly more stuff at the bottom of any software window. Everytime you want to use the slider, you'd have to meddle with taskbar settings. Is this acceptable? Maybe because its intermittent, nobody cares to fix it. I traced this problem back to I see on other forums that its still happening in Vista. I dunno about Win7. Or when Im running Framemaker in full screen mode, the taskbar gets stuck either hidden or visible.

Or after I play an old Win full-screen game. Or else the taskbar gets stuck whenever it feels like it. Usually I can just right-click the taskbar, click or un-click auto-hide, and Apply, then OK, then do it again, and the problem disappears.

Not always. Use the Ctrl-Alt-Delete task manager for that. No need to log of and on. Usually Explorer. If not, just start it from task manager. New Task: type in explorer. I use the autohotkey scripting language free from www. There is a script called RunAndHide. Its only bytes! I thought I would not have to experience this same exact issue as I have in Windows XP since the end of , but alas, it has reared its ugly head in Windows 7!

So I've been having this problem since I got my laptop for college. I'm running Windows 7. I absolutely hate it. But I was noticing that the taskbar wouldn't autohide I've had this computer for six months, and I just realized that it was staying up because somehow I would click on it and the window would no longer be active. Completely worked. That may be you problem, if it is ouila, if not, I feel ya This problem drives me nuts. WHO decided that we ALWAYS want to know every little thing that wants attention or a pat on the back for completing something or that new updates have been downloaded or be told every few seconds that something I intentionally disabled with full presence of mind IS disabled and to click here to enable ahhhhhh!

I promise to check in with all those issues later! When I am finished working! You were absolutely correct! I had a download waiting. As soon as I clicked on it the task bar went to autohide. I recently installed firefox for the first time in a year or two, and yeah, that window seems to be related. Taskbar won't auto-hide until you mouse over it. This was a precursor to the larger problem though, of having to go through these steps to fix it. I solved this problem by installing a program called Taskbar activate which worked well in delaying the taskbar popping up by the time you setit is free and got from.

Cost me time and good humour so often as I tried to remember how i had cured it before, which usually meant finally getting to this manually, never quite believing that the problem would recur.

Just joined up to get some help. Come home from a gig and auto-hide will not get the heck out of the way. Go to Start properties and uncheck auto-hide, hit apply, wait forever then re-check auto-hide and see the taskbar go down I do about two keystrokes and the task bar won't vacate my screen again.

I am almost blind so I enlarge the screen quite a bit so I need to use the bottom screen bar to move screen left or right so I can read the full sentence. I know I can use the keyboard but I'm really lazy and have my finger on the mouse anyway.

With the auto-hide up, no lower bar so I just end up going to a bar. How do I receive answers To any one who is having a problem with the Task Bar I may inadvertently have solved the problem. I started getting it a lot recently and was getting really fed up. Suddenly I could not play any my games on Facebook. I cleared the browsing history and cleared everything and it was as simple as that. Task bar stays out of the way as it should.

Like hell it's not a flaw with Windows. If there's something I need to be notified about, pop up a window to notify me and let me dismiss it. Don't stick it on the task bar and hope I'll notice it, while disabling the function I've specified on the task bar.

I turned off Windows Defender to get rid of all the messages from the "white flag", and I still can't get the task bar to hide. Plus, that's not the problem in my case anyway. I don't have ANY notifications, and the damned task bar still won't go away. I unclick and apply "auto hide taskbar", then click and apply "auto hide taskbar". The task bar goes away for a tenth of a second just to show me it can, then pops right back up again.

Click the toolbars tab. Choose one or more of the toolbars address, links, desktop, etc. Here's a VB Script that will kill and restart Explorer. Fixes the AutoHide problem for me in Win 7 - Terminate Next. Shell" WshShell. You should find out which prog-icon disturbs, let that be hidden no sign, no notice if you can afford it.

I'm using win7x64 on a MacBook, so there is everytime an other option. Do this simply by logging off and logging back into Windows again I think. System should be a lot more stable that just taking out explorer. Hope this doesn't hurt anybody's feelings.

I guess you can't beat a good myth though. Do you have 'balloons tips' set as off too. Can't recall offhand where you do this though - someone's bound to know in here though. I've my Taskbor UNhidden here - I like seeing what's running. But if you want it hidden then the systray popping up alert notifications you should consider as helpful in alerting you to any problems. Once the alert is dealt with then the Taskbar can go back to auto-hide. It's not really the taskbar NOT auto-hiding.

It's the systray alert that's forcing it to be displayed. Btw if you know how to code or someone else? I've tried to turn off ballonos in XP, in the registry. It did remove the ballons, but the taskbar still popped up whenever a ballon was supposed to show up. That was even worse, for you could not click the balloon to make the taskbar hide again.

I'd think most of the balloons are coming out of software running. You'd really need to go to every programs' settings that you normally run and turn off any balloons and notifications - perhaps even auto-updates.

I just thought Windows would have a master switch that could turn them on and off in one click. Not sure if it does. I'll write back here if I spot something. All the programs output to the system tray as a default, there must be someway you could intercept them before they get there and PIPe them into a logfile or a console window even play them as a soundfile through the speech interpreter.

Maybe you could intercept the output with your. But yes, like with turning notifications OFF. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they're still not making a call to the systray which in turn tells the taskbar to reappear..

And if you can't see them they can't be closed. And if they don't receive that signal they also likely won't tell taskbar to go back to auto-hide.. To my experience, many programs do not have an option for turning off balloons, unfortunately. Quote: "Even better is that it is now possible to turn off notification messages selectively. Nine types of messages can be turned off or on separately see screenshot.

Considering that Microsoft hid this notification switch in former Windows versions, this is a remarkable step. Yes, I had action centre telling me to check my backup settings due to a scheduled backup failing because I didn't have the backup HD connected at the time, turned off the prompting on both 64bit and 32bit Win7's without any complaints.

Vista let's you tell the pop-up to stop popping up the error; hehe well at least until the next scheduled backup possibly sets it off again. That's the ticket, for sure. I've noticed some active pop-ups that were not visible because they were underneath a window but when they were exposed and closed, the taskbar dropped out of site. However, that is not always the case. The your tip caused me to click on a a program in the task bar that wasn't running - MS' Calculator. Calculator started, I killed it and the task bar slipped down under again.

The other cause seems to be if a program is minimized but almost full screen height and the bottom edge is below the top of where the taskbar top is, then the taskbar won't hide until I move the window or reduce it to an icon. This is probably something that could be fixed my merely adding a few hundred megabytes of compiled code. Isn't it strange how Windows 3.

Windows isn't the only culprit of code bloat, all the applications are huge too and this applies to the Linux kernel and Mac OS too. I just found a little software called "Autohide Taskbar 0. It works now finally with my Vista Home Premium version - just that I have to type the key-combination twice to kill the taskbar to the background. There is also a symbol close to the clock, but this does not work for me. There would be a newer version 0. I was reading these solutions, and someone said, see if there is something that requires your attention.

I am using windows 8 with an emulator for vista or xp or 7 or something like that, so i can have a start button etc on desktop. Anyway, instead of looking on the left, I checked the notifications on the right of the taskbar.

It was saying i had files to burn. I deleted them, because I already burned them. Then the taskbar stayed hidden. Then I got a box come up, Jucheck. I always click yes on that. The taskbar came up again and would not hide. I went to the right again, and checked another notice for a java update, then the taskbar hid itself again, and Jucheck did not come up, and it is hidden now.

So it has to do with menial checks on the right of the taskbar. I found the solution! I have been having this problem for a little over a week now and i was getting frustrated.

Thank you so much Junkdog8 - it worked for me - after several months of wondering whether it was me or the machine. I struggled through many of the earlier would-be solutions posted from and onward and, like others, I'm amazed at the inability of MS to communicate with its customers. I then decided to jump to this latest, yours, which was from only a week ago. I have a three-year-old Windows 7 machine and I did have to "translate" some of the labeling in Task Manager but other than that it was a snap.

As soon as I hit "run" - two things happened: the auto-hide immediately clicked into action - and an Adobe Flash Player Install Reminder window popped up. Did the culprit reveal itself? I've always hesitated whenever Adobe wants to install something - the frequency of these requsests to install made me suspicious Same thing happened to me today.

Autohide kept locking for no reason, then I can checking un-autohide, autohide, then okay. Worked for a while, then had issue again. I can't believe why Microsoft are trying to kill the Desktop instead of fixing the problems it seems to have grown up with or just giving it alternative approach..

However I do understand killing explorer. Ahh well. The prefetch did it for me, but I didn't try killing explorer. I do remember the problem appearing after having an old game up requiring me to kill explorer. Maybe that's what messed up the prefetch. I notice that this thread is 5 years old and, as far as I can see, MS has done nothing to overcome it. Goodbye Redmond; Hello Cupertino! Similar to when someone sends you an Instant message, the item in the task bar lights up and you have to bring focus to messenger to make it go away.

Check all your system tray icons to see if any of them are in a state of alert. Well, now this thread is at least 11 years old and the problem has been around at least 20 years. In my case, after reading the above, I looked on the task bar and saw the Windows Volume Control glowing. I closed the window and the task bar now works. If MS isn't going to fix the problem somehow, they could at least alert you to the problem when you go back and try to turn Hide the Task Bar off and back on.

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I dowloaded the microsoft update last night and afterwards, despite my task bar being on auto-hide, my task bar is up all the time. It never hides. I tried switching off of auto-hide and then back to it. That does make the taskbar hidden, but only until I move my cursor of it and then it will not go back into hide. Any fixes? What should I do? Friday, January 11, AM. But it is very annoying.

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