Taskbar Won't Auto Hide On Windows 7, Quick Solution

Windows 7 Auto Hide Taskbar Not Working?

With my new Windows 7 by HP, I have not had any noteworthy issues for about four months. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Today, the first minor glitch. Taskbar won't hide on Windows 7. I tried searching on forums for taskbar won't hide, hide the taskbar, how do I fix my toolbar, etc..



Alas, all I could find was guesses as of why this might happen. Also, confirmation about how it happens to many people, and how Microsoft is doing nothing about it? Whinneeeey!

Then I remembered that I had an exactly the same problem with my trusty Vista laptop, here http://annoyances-resolved.blogspot.com/2011/04/vista-windows-7-taskbar-wont-hide.html.

 I looked it up, and, indeed the solution for auto hide toolbar not working is right there!

Tried the Vista Taskbar Won't Hide solution on Win 7, and, yes, it works in just 15 seconds! I also found NO unwanted side effects of the operation. But I did follow the fix to the T.

Check it out here: Vista And Windows 7 Taskbar Won't Hide.

Did the link above solve your windows task bar problem quickly? Come back to this post and let me know in the Comments below!

If you appreciate the quick solution you can also use the "old fashioned" Bookmark button below to LIKE, RETWEET, etc.

Vista, Windows 7 Taskbar Wont Hide, Successful Workaround

Suddenly, my trusty taskbar on Vista, which was set to auto-hide (very handy for saving space on laptops), has stopped to auto-hide. Checkout for a brilliant workaround...

Suddenly, my trusty taskbar on Vista, which was set to auto-hide (very handy for saving space on laptops), has stopped to auto-hide. It just sticks, regardless of the other settings under Taskbar Properties/Taskbar/. Even tried checking and unchecking "Auto-hide the taskbar" several times, to no avail.

Having recently played with placing making my second display a primary display inside Control Panel/Appearance and Personalization/Personalization/Display Settings, this might have been the cause. Dunno.

I first found the solution to be TaskbarSlapper (downloadable program, works fine, no spyware as far as I know), but that only worked one time, and now, it doesn't work anymore.

So I dug deeper, and here is an inelegant solution that, however, worked for me: From: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winvista/1189550818.

To solve your problem: Open Task Manager (Ctrl-Shift-Esc), select the ^Processes page, highlight 'explorer.exe' and click the 'End Process' button.

The Taskbar will vanish.

Now go to the ^Applications page and click the 'New task...' button. Type "explorer" and click OK.

The Taskbar will return and behave correctly. Until the next time.

One downside of this fix: some apps which insert their icons into the Systray at boot time may not do so again. The app will still be still running -- it's just that it will have no Systray icon. 

As I say, it worked for me, with the above mentioned side effects. Beats rebooting Vista, at least for me.

If this works for you, or not, leave me a comment.

If you have a better solution, leave me a comment below.

Windows Taskbar Repair - Start Button Blinking, Taskbar Hides Only Partially

Windows Taskbar Repair - Mission Accomplished. Okay so I had this problem with Windows Taskbar. Vista Desktop Taskbar that is. Suddenly I noticed with my laptop (Acer 5570Z) that the start button was blinking occasionally and that the windows taskbar would not fully pull out. I had previously set the taskbar to auto hide to save valuable screen space when not needed. This feature worked beautifully with Windows Vista.



Well all was fine until the day the Windows taskbar started being annoying with the Start Button blinking when the taskbar was pulled off screen. Sometimes, the vestige of the taskbar would stay on screen and I would have to pull the taskbar back from hiding to restore a good screen picture. Annoying.

But I found the solution. Okay again, here are the symptoms:

1/ Windows Vista on a laptop, the desktop taskbar set to autohide.
2/ Suddenly the start button starts to blink (in place)
3/ Suddenly the taskbar does not pull out of the screen fully like it should. This is random, sometimes it pulls out partially, sometimes more other times less. Creates ugly image when not pulled out.

And the solution? Simple. Well, really this is not a solution, but a workaround. I will leave the solution to Microsoft.


THE WORKAROUND - Windows taskbar repair

I noticed that the above desktop taskbar problem only happens when the taskbar is set to autohide AND the network icon is DISABLED. So the workaround is simple. ENABLE the network icon. To do that,


1/ Right click on taskbar, select Properties
2/ Click Notification Area tab, make sure you CHECK Network
3/ Click OK

Problem solved. The problem is repeatable for me, I can go back to the problem whenever I uncheck Network. And now that I know Network is the problem, I remembered I wanted to take that off... I hardly have network disconnects, and the icons were taking up valuable space on the taskbar...

What about you? Has this solved your problem? Find the comment area below and let me know if this solution helped. Even if it didn't, let me know anyways. Maybe we can figure something else out.

So go ahead leave me a comment!