Windows 7 Taskbar

Kevin Marois

Nope. Tried that many years ago. Has never worked.

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

Bassam Abdul Baki

Have you tried removing the lock on the Taskbar, resizing it, and see if that works?

Rama Krishna Vavilala

Kevin Marois wrote:

Anyone know how to correct this?

Fortunately the issue is resolved in Windows 8, there will be no task bar in Metro mode. :) I think you can click on properties (task bar), customize the notification area and suppress notifications for Windows Update.

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

Well then you are good and truly Elephanted. What Rama suggests should avoid the situation in future.

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lewax00

Just tell Windows not to check for updates, then no notification to break things! :-D I turned off automatic update checks on my home computer because they annoy me. Honestly, the idea of checking for updates when a computer starts is terrible. The process ends up being: turn on computer => update computer => reboot computer => use computer => turn off computer instead of something sensible like: turn on computer => use computer => update computer => turn off computer But even worse are the updates for my Razer peripherals, which happen right at boot, no warning, no cancel, and always require a reboot, and if you don't none of your custom buttons work (I have volume mapped to the back/forward buttons on the mouse, and I use those a lot).

Kevin Marois

This happens mostly with Win update, but other notifications can cause it as well

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

lewax00

You can disable notifications for anything after it shows up there at least once. Right click the notification icon area => Properties => Customize notification icons => turn off notifications for any offending programs. Sure it's only curing the symptoms, but it's something.

Albert Holguin

This usually works for me.... :thumbsup:

ZurdoDev

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Anyone know how to correct this?

Get a big enough monitor you so you don't need to hide it. :)

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SalCon

On a related note..my applications keep forgetting the pinned items :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer

As said below, get yerself a bigger monitor... Similarly, I had a lightbulb flash in my head a while back. I write code, so vertical space is more important to me, and yet I have a widescreen. All my taskbars are on the left now, no problems! Iain.

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realJSOP

Call Obama. He thinks he has an answer for everything, and that all problems can be solved via executive order.

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Lost User

Update manually instead of automatically.

Lost User

Mitt is that you? Not too many others would blame Obama for a windows task bar issue. Then again maybe somehow one can claim that the task bar uses the entire system resources with out actually doing any work. DAMN SOCIALIST TASK BAR!

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Wjousts

Kevin Marois wrote:

Tried that many years ago.

Well then, perhaps it's time to try it again. No it won't fix it forever, but it should fix it for right now. Works for me, and yes it's really annoying when the autohide taskbar get's stuck.

Mark_Wallace

<Windows '95 tech-support mode> Have you tried formatting the hard drive and re-installing? </Windows '95 tech-support mode> What annoys me most is that if a Windows app pops up a dialog (e.g. an Outlook meeting reminder), only the top border of the taskbar unhides; all the rest is transparent, with the desktop showing through. What annoys me second-most is that the buttons don't group until the taskbar is "full". I use two rows, because I always have a lot of stuff open, so the taskbar is never 'full"; it just squeezes and squeezes the buttons until they're useless -- right now, I have six XML files open for reference, and they've each got an individual button. Not much of a pain in the foxhole. I'm beginning to like the idea of Linux -- if things like that annoy you, you can just fix them.

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Mark_Wallace

I assume that the executive order starts with zero.

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Mark_Wallace

Turning your monitor through 90 degrees isn't an option?

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Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer

Mark Wallace wrote:

Turning your monitor through 90 degrees isn't an option?

In two cases, no, they're laptops, and I don't fancy typing sideways. In the third case, I have a nice big 27" IPS monitor[^] from work, which has great resolution, but no swivel. I have a pretty deep desk, but I think I'd be having to look up and down a bit too much if I was facing a 2 foot high screen. (I have had a monitor in the past which was portrait, and it was pretty nifty, but very odd!) Iain.

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BillWoodruff

In order to control the "mutant task bar with a mind of its own" which decides arbitrarily when it is visible or not, I use a free utility, "TaskBar Eliminator"[^]. I'm using it on Win 7/64, but supposedly it works on Vista, and XP, also. It uses alt-t to show, or hide, the TaskBar: yes a slight pain in the butt to remember at first, but then you become used to it, and it's almost automatic now, for me to use it. It, of course, appears in the TaskBar itself, and has a strange implementation where you don't get the context menu you might expect with a standard TaskBar icon: you context click, and then get a single choice: "Preferences:" you then click on that, and the control dialogue opens, and that gives you the only way you can exit the program (unless you want to use the Task Manager to kill it). And, you have no option to change the key-combination that triggers it. But, it works ... while running every app I use, etc. ! best, Bill

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