Taskbar doesn't auto-hide anymore! What's the fix?
I had auto-hide chosen for a long time but today it stopped hiding though the option is still checked off under Properties. I tried unchecking, re-checking; pressing Apply; pressing Ok numerous times but the taskbar won't hide. What went wrong?
Oh, it's Win 7 64-bit.
Solution 1:
Try this: Run the Task Manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).Stop the Explorer process. If there are multiple explorers running, sort them by memory usage and stop the largest one. Alternatively, just stop them all. With task manager open, go to File > New Task (Run…) and type:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Now retry auto-hiding.
Solution 2:
I've had that happen under two circumstances:
When there is a message in the notification area of the task bar that wants to be clicked on. Clicking on the message resolved it in this case.
Occasionally when I've had the Network and Sharing Center Open, I have to re-open and close the Network and Sharing Center in order to get the task bar to hide.
Neither of these makes much sense to me, but I have fix the problem several times this way.