TaskBar Eliminator
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Tested in W7-64 only: never had a problem of a stuck-open TaskBar with XP or Vista. Bedeviled by Windows #whatever~7 locking your TaskBar open, and ignoring your 'Auto-hide' = 'checked' setting ? I know I was. At random, perhaps every hour or so, I have been having to open the Task Manager, kill Explorer.exe, and then re-launch Explorer. This strange little program puts a stop to that[^] I say 'strange,' because it comes as a simple '.exe' file, you run it, and ... it runs in the TaskBar ... well, most of the time ... in W7-64- ... sometimes it seems to disappear. Hint: when you exit the Preferences window, hit the Close button on the Form, do not click the 'Exit button. But, when He Hid ... He was very, very Hid: it will indeed hide your TaskBar, but it will not restore your TaskBar to "normal behavior:" but, I would rather hit Alt-T than open the #%%!0* Task Mananger and kill, and re-launch, Explorer again ! When it's running you use Alt-T to toggle the TaskBar visibility, or Control-Shift-T to open its preferences windows. You can select to have it opened when you boot. best, Bill p.s. Be assured I have examined every possible cause for the Win7 TaskBar sticking open from unopened Action Center messages, to looking for Malware, to examining every running process in the TaskBar. I believe this is a bug in Win 7.
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." C.S. Lewis
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Tested in W7-64 only: never had a problem of a stuck-open TaskBar with XP or Vista. Bedeviled by Windows #whatever~7 locking your TaskBar open, and ignoring your 'Auto-hide' = 'checked' setting ? I know I was. At random, perhaps every hour or so, I have been having to open the Task Manager, kill Explorer.exe, and then re-launch Explorer. This strange little program puts a stop to that[^] I say 'strange,' because it comes as a simple '.exe' file, you run it, and ... it runs in the TaskBar ... well, most of the time ... in W7-64- ... sometimes it seems to disappear. Hint: when you exit the Preferences window, hit the Close button on the Form, do not click the 'Exit button. But, when He Hid ... He was very, very Hid: it will indeed hide your TaskBar, but it will not restore your TaskBar to "normal behavior:" but, I would rather hit Alt-T than open the #%%!0* Task Mananger and kill, and re-launch, Explorer again ! When it's running you use Alt-T to toggle the TaskBar visibility, or Control-Shift-T to open its preferences windows. You can select to have it opened when you boot. best, Bill p.s. Be assured I have examined every possible cause for the Win7 TaskBar sticking open from unopened Action Center messages, to looking for Malware, to examining every running process in the TaskBar. I believe this is a bug in Win 7.
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." C.S. Lewis
BillWoodruff wrote:
I believe this is a bug in Win 7.
Inherited from Vista. The dreaded V does it to me intermittently - not often enough to provoke me into hunting it down, but enough to really p*** me off when I've got something fullscreen on the primary monitor. :doh: Just figured out why I tend to run fullscreen stuff on the secondary monitor (above the primary)... Need more caffeine... Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Tested in W7-64 only: never had a problem of a stuck-open TaskBar with XP or Vista. Bedeviled by Windows #whatever~7 locking your TaskBar open, and ignoring your 'Auto-hide' = 'checked' setting ? I know I was. At random, perhaps every hour or so, I have been having to open the Task Manager, kill Explorer.exe, and then re-launch Explorer. This strange little program puts a stop to that[^] I say 'strange,' because it comes as a simple '.exe' file, you run it, and ... it runs in the TaskBar ... well, most of the time ... in W7-64- ... sometimes it seems to disappear. Hint: when you exit the Preferences window, hit the Close button on the Form, do not click the 'Exit button. But, when He Hid ... He was very, very Hid: it will indeed hide your TaskBar, but it will not restore your TaskBar to "normal behavior:" but, I would rather hit Alt-T than open the #%%!0* Task Mananger and kill, and re-launch, Explorer again ! When it's running you use Alt-T to toggle the TaskBar visibility, or Control-Shift-T to open its preferences windows. You can select to have it opened when you boot. best, Bill p.s. Be assured I have examined every possible cause for the Win7 TaskBar sticking open from unopened Action Center messages, to looking for Malware, to examining every running process in the TaskBar. I believe this is a bug in Win 7.
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." C.S. Lewis
Funny, on my wife's laptop, running win7 64bit, the taskbar continually wants to HIDE and she complains about her missing taskbar. The "Auto-hide" checkbox becomes mysteriously checked. Weird.
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Tested in W7-64 only: never had a problem of a stuck-open TaskBar with XP or Vista. Bedeviled by Windows #whatever~7 locking your TaskBar open, and ignoring your 'Auto-hide' = 'checked' setting ? I know I was. At random, perhaps every hour or so, I have been having to open the Task Manager, kill Explorer.exe, and then re-launch Explorer. This strange little program puts a stop to that[^] I say 'strange,' because it comes as a simple '.exe' file, you run it, and ... it runs in the TaskBar ... well, most of the time ... in W7-64- ... sometimes it seems to disappear. Hint: when you exit the Preferences window, hit the Close button on the Form, do not click the 'Exit button. But, when He Hid ... He was very, very Hid: it will indeed hide your TaskBar, but it will not restore your TaskBar to "normal behavior:" but, I would rather hit Alt-T than open the #%%!0* Task Mananger and kill, and re-launch, Explorer again ! When it's running you use Alt-T to toggle the TaskBar visibility, or Control-Shift-T to open its preferences windows. You can select to have it opened when you boot. best, Bill p.s. Be assured I have examined every possible cause for the Win7 TaskBar sticking open from unopened Action Center messages, to looking for Malware, to examining every running process in the TaskBar. I believe this is a bug in Win 7.
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." C.S. Lewis