Task Bar No Longer AutoHides

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Jake

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Folks,

Every so often, and today it started again, my Task Bar does not
auto-hide, despite having set that option in Properties. I have
checked-on: Auto-hide the taskbar, keep the taskbar on top of other
windows. Checked off is "lock the taskbar"

Yesterday it worked fine. Today it's broken.

I've tried re-setting these options from off to on and visa versa, with
no affect.

The problem with a task bar that does not auto-hide is that it covers up
the bottom of the window and I can't get easly to the controls under it.
A pain.

Only significant (that I can think of) change from yesterday and today
is that I accepted Microsoft's "invitation" to install updates (817606
and 823559). Update was intalled and I did a re-boot (re-boots rare on
this machine since XP is so reliable!).

I don't believe these updates affected this since I've seen this
behaviour before where auto-hiding just stopped. However, it is the
only thing I can think of which changed from yesterday to today.

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Did you click OK after setting the Taskbar properties?
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You must click "Apply" first, then click "OK" to set and
save the settings. Try it.
 
Jake wrote:
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Did you click OK after setting the Taskbar properties?

You must click "Apply" first, then click "OK" to set and
save the settings. Try it.
Click to expand...

Jake,

thanks for the input. Yes, that's what I did. And I did it just now.
The task bar now "stuck" at bottom over top of everything else. It
doesn't "auto-hide". It's just there.

I can remove it to get out of the way by turning off the Auto-hide
button and the "keep on top" button. Then only way to et back is to hit
the Windows button.
 
Ken Blake wrote:
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Nope--not at all true.

"OK" implies "Apply." The difference between the two is that
"Apply" makes the change and leaves you in the dialog box. "OK"
makes the change and closes the dialog box.
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Ken,

totally agree. If I programmed the dialog box, that's how I would have
programmed it. Thinking that maybe the programmer missed it on this
particular dialog box, I tried both approaches and I can confirm that
same result occured: did not fix the problem.

Heck, I'm trying everything.

Any thoughts on how I can get "auto-hide" back? I really like it. It's
missed. I'm gotten to the point I'll even consider a "re-boot" (which
I rarely do on this laptop) with the hope that it will come back. That
is not a preferred solution as I think there is a "root-cause" somewhere.
 
*snip*
Any thoughts on how I can get "auto-hide" back? I really like it. It's
missed. I'm gotten to the point I'll even consider a "re-boot" (which
I rarely do on this laptop) with the hope that it will come back. That
is not a preferred solution as I think there is a "root-cause" somewhere.
Click to expand...

Following re-boot, task bar now works as expected.

Wish there was an explaination, but that's the way it goes, I guess.
 
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