Move your cursor to the bottom of the screen and the taskbar will pop back up. It will hide again when you move your mouse off it. Method 3. Check for programs keeping the taskbar open. If a program is flashing in the taskbar, it won't close.
Clicking the flashing program will switch to the program and stop it from trying to notify you. Check the icons in your system tray. The system tray can be found in the lower-right corner of the screen, next to the clock. Like the programs in your taskbar, icons in your system tray may be keeping the taskbar open when trying to notify you.
Click the icon with the notification to see what the program needs. Click the arrow to the left of the row of icons to see any hidden icons. Disable notifications for specific programs. If you're constantly having to dismiss notifications, or if a notification won't go away and the taskbar is stuck on, you can try disabling all notifications. Windows 8, 7, and Vista - Click the Expand arrow next to your system tray icons, then click "Customize.
Try reapplying the settings. Sometimes toggling the auto-hide feature off and the on again will fix a taskbar that won't go away. Open the Settings Windows 10 or Properties window again and turn the auto-hide feature off. Click "Apply" in Windows 8 and earlier versions. Once you've turned it off, toggle it back on again and apply the settings.
Reset Windows Explorer. This is the user interface for Windows, and resetting it may fix your taskbar issues. Select "Exit Explorer" from the menu. Your taskbar and all of your icons and folders will disappear. This will reload explorer. Method 4. If you're using Windows 10 and the taskbar won't stay hidden, you can try using the PowerShell utility to fix it.
Right-click the PowerShell icon in your taskbar and select "Run as administrator. This will open a new "Administrator" PowerShell window. Copy and paste the following command. Run the command. You may see a few errors as the command runs, which can safely be ignored. Right-Click an empty section on the taskbar and click Properties.
Click OK. To fix this do the following:. You taskbar should be back now. Click Continue or provide Administrator credentials if necessary. Click Choose a different restore point , and then click Next. If the date you need is in excess of 5 days click the Show restore points older than 5 days check box. Important Notice : That System Restore affects Windows system files, programs, and registry settings. Shell" WshShell. You should find out which prog-icon disturbs, let that be hidden no sign, no notice if you can afford it.
I'm using win7x64 on a MacBook, so there is everytime an other option. Do this simply by logging off and logging back into Windows again I think. System should be a lot more stable that just taking out explorer.
Hope this doesn't hurt anybody's feelings. I guess you can't beat a good myth though. Do you have 'balloons tips' set as off too. Can't recall offhand where you do this though - someone's bound to know in here though.
I've my Taskbor UNhidden here - I like seeing what's running. But if you want it hidden then the systray popping up alert notifications you should consider as helpful in alerting you to any problems. Once the alert is dealt with then the Taskbar can go back to auto-hide. It's not really the taskbar NOT auto-hiding.
It's the systray alert that's forcing it to be displayed. Btw if you know how to code or someone else? I've tried to turn off ballonos in XP, in the registry. It did remove the ballons, but the taskbar still popped up whenever a ballon was supposed to show up. That was even worse, for you could not click the balloon to make the taskbar hide again.
I'd think most of the balloons are coming out of software running. You'd really need to go to every programs' settings that you normally run and turn off any balloons and notifications - perhaps even auto-updates. I just thought Windows would have a master switch that could turn them on and off in one click. Not sure if it does. I'll write back here if I spot something. All the programs output to the system tray as a default, there must be someway you could intercept them before they get there and PIPe them into a logfile or a console window even play them as a soundfile through the speech interpreter.
Maybe you could intercept the output with your. But yes, like with turning notifications OFF. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they're still not making a call to the systray which in turn tells the taskbar to reappear..
And if you can't see them they can't be closed. And if they don't receive that signal they also likely won't tell taskbar to go back to auto-hide.. To my experience, many programs do not have an option for turning off balloons, unfortunately. Quote: "Even better is that it is now possible to turn off notification messages selectively. Nine types of messages can be turned off or on separately see screenshot.
Considering that Microsoft hid this notification switch in former Windows versions, this is a remarkable step. Yes, I had action centre telling me to check my backup settings due to a scheduled backup failing because I didn't have the backup HD connected at the time, turned off the prompting on both 64bit and 32bit Win7's without any complaints.
Vista let's you tell the pop-up to stop popping up the error; hehe well at least until the next scheduled backup possibly sets it off again. That's the ticket, for sure. I've noticed some active pop-ups that were not visible because they were underneath a window but when they were exposed and closed, the taskbar dropped out of site.
However, that is not always the case. The your tip caused me to click on a a program in the task bar that wasn't running - MS' Calculator. Calculator started, I killed it and the task bar slipped down under again.
The other cause seems to be if a program is minimized but almost full screen height and the bottom edge is below the top of where the taskbar top is, then the taskbar won't hide until I move the window or reduce it to an icon. This is probably something that could be fixed my merely adding a few hundred megabytes of compiled code. Isn't it strange how Windows 3. Windows isn't the only culprit of code bloat, all the applications are huge too and this applies to the Linux kernel and Mac OS too.
I just found a little software called "Autohide Taskbar 0. It works now finally with my Vista Home Premium version - just that I have to type the key-combination twice to kill the taskbar to the background. There is also a symbol close to the clock, but this does not work for me.
There would be a newer version 0. I was reading these solutions, and someone said, see if there is something that requires your attention. I am using windows 8 with an emulator for vista or xp or 7 or something like that, so i can have a start button etc on desktop. Anyway, instead of looking on the left, I checked the notifications on the right of the taskbar. It was saying i had files to burn.
I deleted them, because I already burned them. Then the taskbar stayed hidden. Then I got a box come up, Jucheck. I always click yes on that. The taskbar came up again and would not hide. I went to the right again, and checked another notice for a java update, then the taskbar hid itself again, and Jucheck did not come up, and it is hidden now.
So it has to do with menial checks on the right of the taskbar. I found the solution! I have been having this problem for a little over a week now and i was getting frustrated. Thank you so much Junkdog8 - it worked for me - after several months of wondering whether it was me or the machine. I struggled through many of the earlier would-be solutions posted from and onward and, like others, I'm amazed at the inability of MS to communicate with its customers.
I then decided to jump to this latest, yours, which was from only a week ago. I have a three-year-old Windows 7 machine and I did have to "translate" some of the labeling in Task Manager but other than that it was a snap. As soon as I hit "run" - two things happened: the auto-hide immediately clicked into action - and an Adobe Flash Player Install Reminder window popped up.
Did the culprit reveal itself? I've always hesitated whenever Adobe wants to install something - the frequency of these requsests to install made me suspicious Same thing happened to me today. Autohide kept locking for no reason, then I can checking un-autohide, autohide, then okay. Worked for a while, then had issue again. I can't believe why Microsoft are trying to kill the Desktop instead of fixing the problems it seems to have grown up with or just giving it alternative approach..
However I do understand killing explorer. Ahh well. The prefetch did it for me, but I didn't try killing explorer. I do remember the problem appearing after having an old game up requiring me to kill explorer. Maybe that's what messed up the prefetch. I notice that this thread is 5 years old and, as far as I can see, MS has done nothing to overcome it. Goodbye Redmond; Hello Cupertino! Similar to when someone sends you an Instant message, the item in the task bar lights up and you have to bring focus to messenger to make it go away.
Check all your system tray icons to see if any of them are in a state of alert. Well, now this thread is at least 11 years old and the problem has been around at least 20 years. In my case, after reading the above, I looked on the task bar and saw the Windows Volume Control glowing. I closed the window and the task bar now works. If MS isn't going to fix the problem somehow, they could at least alert you to the problem when you go back and try to turn Hide the Task Bar off and back on.
Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. Windows Vista Desktop UI. Such issues include folders, AERO, toolbars, etc. Sign in to vote. I haven't had this problem for long A total of 1 day , but it is making my gaming experience horrible.
I dowloaded the microsoft update last night and afterwards, despite my task bar being on auto-hide, my task bar is up all the time. It never hides. I tried switching off of auto-hide and then back to it. That does make the taskbar hidden, but only until I move my cursor of it and then it will not go back into hide.
Any fixes? 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. This programs' closure will solve the problem. Now the first step is to recognize such programs. This can be achieved by noticing if the taskbar remains unhidden after the launch of a particular program.
After finding out the culprit program follow these steps to ensure its disruption are eliminated. Hence, these were how to auto-hide the taskbar in Windows PC and how to fix Windows 10 taskbar not hiding issue. Windows Password Key 4WinKey.
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