Windows 7 Taskbar
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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).
This happens mostly with Win update, but other notifications can cause it as well
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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This happens mostly with Win update, but other notifications can cause it as well
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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.
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Set the property to not autohide, apply it, and then reset it to autohide again. Apply that. Should work. BTW, it's a known problem in windows that the taskbar has a mind of its own. M$ doesn't seem to care.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von BraunThis usually works for me.... :thumbsup:
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I have mine set to Auto-Hide. Windows just popped up the INCREDIBLY ANNOYING tooltip "Updates are ready..." crap. Now my taskbar is stuck open. I'v seen this before and havent ever figured out how to get it to hide again, short of logging off/on again. Anyone know how to correct this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I have mine set to Auto-Hide. Windows just popped up the INCREDIBLY ANNOYING tooltip "Updates are ready..." crap. Now my taskbar is stuck open. I'v seen this before and havent ever figured out how to get it to hide again, short of logging off/on again. Anyone know how to correct this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I have mine set to Auto-Hide. Windows just popped up the INCREDIBLY ANNOYING tooltip "Updates are ready..." crap. Now my taskbar is stuck open. I'v seen this before and havent ever figured out how to get it to hide again, short of logging off/on again. Anyone know how to correct this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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I have mine set to Auto-Hide. Windows just popped up the INCREDIBLY ANNOYING tooltip "Updates are ready..." crap. Now my taskbar is stuck open. I'v seen this before and havent ever figured out how to get it to hide again, short of logging off/on again. Anyone know how to correct this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Call Obama. He thinks he has an answer for everything, and that all problems can be solved via executive order.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
I have mine set to Auto-Hide. Windows just popped up the INCREDIBLY ANNOYING tooltip "Updates are ready..." crap. Now my taskbar is stuck open. I'v seen this before and havent ever figured out how to get it to hide again, short of logging off/on again. Anyone know how to correct this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Call Obama. He thinks he has an answer for everything, and that all problems can be solved via executive order.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997Mitt 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!
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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Nope. Tried that many years ago. Has never worked.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I have mine set to Auto-Hide. Windows just popped up the INCREDIBLY ANNOYING tooltip "Updates are ready..." crap. Now my taskbar is stuck open. I'v seen this before and havent ever figured out how to get it to hide again, short of logging off/on again. Anyone know how to correct this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
<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.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Call Obama. He thinks he has an answer for everything, and that all problems can be solved via executive order.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
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.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
Turning your monitor through 90 degrees isn't an option?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Turning your monitor through 90 degrees isn't an option?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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I have mine set to Auto-Hide. Windows just popped up the INCREDIBLY ANNOYING tooltip "Updates are ready..." crap. Now my taskbar is stuck open. I'v seen this before and havent ever figured out how to get it to hide again, short of logging off/on again. Anyone know how to correct this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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
"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real." Niels Bohr
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I assume that the executive order starts with zero.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
It comes from a zero...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
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!
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
Collin Jasnoch wrote:
Then again maybe somehow one can claim that the task bar uses the entire system resources with out actually doing any work.
ROFLMFAO That's funny - I don't care *who* you are...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
