What should I do? Friday, January 11, AM. But it is very annoying. I found a way to fix this but it is definitely not elegant way of fixing an issue: Just kill the process tree for explorer.
Proposed as answer by solution finder2. Tuesday, January 15, PM. I just noticed the same problem. I downloaded and installed many vista updates the past week. Wednesday, January 16, AM. I'm also having this problem. I'm not sure why this hasn't been fixed if it has been noticed since January.
I hope Microsoft can look into this issue as it's a very noticeable and annoying defect. Thursday, May 8, AM. Thursday, May 22, PM. Hello, I'm back again, with good news in my case. In Taskbar properties, Check this: Auto-hide the taskbar Uncheck this: Keep the taskbar on top of other windows. Proposed as answer by organiste Saturday, November 24, AM. Saturday, May 24, PM. Nope, this didn't work.
The taskbar just stays hidden. I hope Microsoft comes up with a fix for this soon. Proposed as answer by meklu Thursday, February 2, PM. Friday, June 20, PM. Sunday, June 29, PM. I have been experiencing this same problem for a couple of months now. My work Graphics, web design depends on a relaxed and smooth work experience has been affected. I have resorted to using another OLD computer with windows XP home edition to avoid the pain of using the other computer.
Some may actually think I am exaggerating, but I promise you I am not. This may seem like trivial to some It is very serious to me and I may grab a sledge hammer and pound my whole system into a million pieces as I move on to try a MAC for the first time and in the process throwing away my 15 YEARS of Windows "love affair". The distressing part about this is that, someone posted this issue on 11 Jan , AM UTC , And 6 months later, we've yet to see any official reply by any MS representitive.
Very disappointed. Tuesday, July 1, PM. Tuesday, July 29, AM. Eh, hope I'm not necroposting too badly here. Wednesday, August 6, PM. Tuesday, August 12, AM. I've had this issue for like 2 weeks in Vista now. Driving me insane.
It'll work fine for a few minutes to hours after I boot up, then suddenly at random it just won't go away. I got used to having a similar issue with XP I used to get annoyed by the incessant balloon tips, so I always turned them off.
But turning them off meant the taskbar would still unhide to show the tip, but you didn't know which app was calling for your attention. Clicking each tray icon would make it go away after a while I started to figure out the usual suspects This isn't the problem with Vista, since I've not gotten sick of the balloons yet, and clicking each icon in turn doesn't do anything.
I find it horribly frustrating too. I run my taskbar 3 rows high, so when it's not hidden, the bottom row of desktop icons is inaccessible.
Tuesday, August 26, AM. I am like you. I do the same thing with three rows of task bars and quick Launches. Is there a key that I can hit that will display the task bar if I keep it hidden?
Tuesday, August 26, PM. I just realized that I had this problem too, I did however remedy the problem by restarting explorer. Thursday, August 28, AM. Tuesday, September 2, AM. Wednesday, October 1, AM. Tell me again how Microsoft won thier anti-trust suit? Sunday, October 26, AM. Tuesday, October 28, AM. Saturday, November 29, PM. Try checking the top three boxes. Proposed as answer by tyler Wednesday, February 24, AM.
Wednesday, December 24, PM. Tuesday, January 13, PM. This may be caused by something wanting your attention. For example: email faling to sync, anti-virus failing to retrieve definitions, Security Center with a Red shield, anything else with an exclamation point. This was driving me nuts for days.
I tended to some of these system tray issues and the problems have ceased. Wednesday, January 14, PM. Ok, got it. It's the damn PC-Cillin one. There was no alert, nothing needing attention.
But when I exited, it popped up a red-x shield thing saying that I was unprotected due to exiting. Started it back up and autohide works again. Thanks, Vista, for sucking. Friday, January 16, AM. Friday, February 27, PM. Oh man! It was working fine, and then it stopped for no reason.
I tried the Prefetch idea, and it didn't work. Come on Microsoft. This is ridiculous. I use Rocketdock too, so the taskbar is extremely annoying when it won't hide. Tuesday, April 28, PM. Count me in too! I have never experienced this problem using XP, but it has plagued me since switching to Vista. My setup is a little different from the others described here. I have the Taskbar on the left edge of my screen, and it Auto-hides just fine. Then I have a set of toolbars on the right edge of the screen.
They auto-hide when they are in the mood, and then they don't don't if they are in a bad mood. Perhaps I should mention that I usually run a dual display, and it seems this problem is worse when I have a second monitor active - but I have not measured it - that's just my perception. That fixes it. But the next time I boot it's broken again.
So that is not a fix, and it's really annoying to have to kill your OS's primary UI manager to get it to work properly! I sure hope Someone at Microsoft will actually fix this for us Wednesday, April 29, AM. He's right. I had the same problem. For some reason or the other Windows Update could not search for updates as was the case with Defender. So I just set Update to never check for updates and closed Defender.
Its fine now. I never found any difference in my computer before and after an update. Sunday, May 17, AM. Rick in Phoenix Rick.
Thursday, May 28, PM. I hope I can be of some help Often times Windows XP and Vista will refuse to hide because it mistakenly believes there is still a tooltip balloon open.
Unfortunately the only way to get your taskbar to properly hide again and I don't mean uncheck the "Keep the taskbar ontop of other widows" option for a quick fix is to restart the machine so that Windows resets the tooltip balloon status. What a pain! Thankfully through my inability to let it go and hatred for this problem I have written a file that will fix this! Works great on my Vista machine! All the program does is overwrite the phantom tooltip balloon and then clear the tooltip balloon and Tahdah!
The tooltip will stay up for 10 seconds so that you can read the info on it just telling you what it does and how you can contact me if you have any problems.
You can close this tooltip balloon like any other by clicking on it, or if you mouse over the program tray icon it will close itself instantly. Sunday, June 28, AM. Hmm, I'm afraid your Taskbar Slapper didn't work but thats for trying to help. You could make a lil batch file that backed up and cleared the prefetch folder at system startup rather than on log in.
But why bother, I think unchecking ' Keep the taskbar on top of other windows' probably works fine. Just hit start when you wanna see the taskbar, or just deal with less space although similar to other users I'm using Rocket Dock so this is not an option.
Quite why they are spending so much time on new Windows OS's when OS's going back even to 95 from what I can see still have very noticable bugs that cannot be fixed I don't know. Anyone tried to recreate the bug in a Windows 7 RC yet? Saturday, July 4, PM. It seems this happened to me either as a result of Outlook popping up a notification, and then Vista hiding it with me never having acknowledged it , in which case restarting Outlook fixed the problem, OR, a McAfee virus scan going into "Paused" state when I'm using the machine, in which case viewing the scan details and then closing them does the trick.
I'm guessing the root of the problem is actually that when the task-bar is in "auto hide" mode, sometimes windows will "hide" notifications along with the task bar and then you'll never see them again.
Monday, July 6, PM. This trick works for me! Thank you Rick! Friday, July 10, AM. Saturday, July 25, PM. What I do to fix this problem is I click "Auto-Hide the taskbar", then I grab the top of the taskbar, and force it to hide, by dragging it down. This resolves the issue for me, since I use alt-tab to switch between programs, and I press the windows key one of the RARE times its of any damn use to bring the start bar up. Eliminated the frustration permanently. Monday, August 17, AM.
Wednesday, August 26, PM. I've been having this problem on and off for years on the systems I support It works every time I need to use it.. Monday, September 7, PM. I was having the same problem. Since I am no expert, after reading all the entries around here I decided to give it a try to kill the explorer.
Monday, September 14, AM. All rights reserved. Hope that this helps also with the frustration;! Proposed as answer by leafminer Tuesday, December 7, AM. Thursday, October 15, PM. I do not have the same problem as posted in this blog, but I do find the peek-a-boo feature a bit annoying. I usually have so many windows open that I put the task bar on the left or right side of the screen. It makes the stacking and reading of icons easier to follow.
However, when I attempt to use my scroll feature in open windows, my mouse activates the task bar. Same happens for left side of screen.
Is there a way to have the task bar unhide with a key combination. In other words, the task bar will not reappear until I hover over the area and hit the shift key.
Wednesday, November 18, PM. The problem is, as pointed earlier, that the system recognizes some item in the taskbar or notification area that needs attention. This may explain the different experiences because people use different antivirus programs.
It is not a problem for earlier versions, but it seems to keep the bar up with Windows 7. If you turn off the messages related to the item that needs attention or deal with it, autohide works again, until something else starts to bug you, of course. Give it a try and see if it works, because it at least tells you where to look. It worked for me, for now. Monday, November 30, AM. Tuesday, December 1, AM. Every day my wireless goes down a few times, and Pidgin goes spastic, flashing the taskbar since I have told it not to steal focus.
So I have to click Pidgin, then click the taskbar again just to resume what I was doing. If I set the taskbar to auto-hide, that means I want it to stay hidden unless I call it up, period, no ifs ands or buts.
If something in the tray wants to notify me of something, it can wait until I choose to access the taskbar. Ideally, I could choose to override this on a per-process basis, but beggars can't be choosers, and I will be very happy if this Win98 feature finally EVER works correctly.
Hilarious to see that it is still broken in Vista. Saturday, December 12, AM. Tuesday, December 15, PM. Saturday, December 26, PM. What do you mean it just stays hidden? Here's how you can make the Windows 7 Taskbar disappear or appear automatically. Click the Start button and search for "taskbar" in the search field. Click "Auto-hide the taskbar" in the results. When you see the Taskbar menu appear, click the Autohide the Taskbar checkbox.
Your Taskbar will disappear. Some programs may display notifications regularly, and this may prevent the hiding of the Windows 11 taskbar. If that is the case, you may block it from sending notifications to avoid this. Administrators may configure several options in the Group Policy to handle notifications on Windows 11 systems. Note that the Group Policy Editor is only available on professional and Enterprise editions of Windows Now You : do you display the taskbar all the time, or have set it to hide automatically?
If you go in the main page in Task Manager and right-click explorer. This was the method in previous versions of Windows, but since Windows 10 that method is outdated and redundant. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up. Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann.
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