Task Bar No Longer AutoHides

[Jake]

>-----Original Message-----
>Folks,
>
>Every so often, and today it started again, my Task Bar
does not
>auto-hide, despite having set that option in
Properties. I have
>checked-on: Auto-hide the taskbar, keep the taskbar on
top of other
>windows. Checked off is "lock the taskbar"
>
>Yesterday it worked fine. Today it's broken.
>
>I've tried re-setting these options from off to on and
visa versa, with
>no affect.
>
>The problem with a task bar that does not auto-hide is
that it covers up
>the bottom of the window and I can't get easly to the
controls under it.
> A pain.
>
>Only significant (that I can think of) change from
yesterday and today
>is that I accepted Microsoft's "invitation" to install
updates (817606
>and 823559). Update was intalled and I did a re-boot
(re-boots rare on
>this machine since XP is so reliable!).
>
>I don't believe these updates affected this since I've
seen this
>behaviour before where auto-hiding just stopped.
However, it is the
>only thing I can think of which changed from yesterday
to today.
>
>.
>Did you click OK after setting the Taskbar properties?
You must click "Apply" first, then click "OK" to set and
save the settings. Try it.

[Rob Schneider]

Jake wrote:
*snip*
>Did you click OK after setting the Taskbar properties?
>
> You must click "Apply" first, then click "OK" to set and
> save the settings. Try it.

Jake,

thanks for the input. Yes, that's what I did. And I did it just now.
The task bar now "stuck" at bottom over top of everything else. It
doesn't "auto-hide". It's just there.

I can remove it to get out of the way by turning off the Auto-hide
button and the "keep on top" button. Then only way to et back is to hit
the Windows button.

[Ken Blake]

"Jake" > wrote in message
...

> Did you click OK after setting the Taskbar properties?
> You must click "Apply" first, then click "OK" to set and
> save the settings. Try it.


Nope--not at all true.

"OK" implies "Apply." The difference between the two is that
"Apply" makes the change and leaves you in the dialog box. "OK"
makes the change and closes the dialog box.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

[Rob Schneider]

Ken Blake wrote:
*snip*

> Nope--not at all true.
>
> "OK" implies "Apply." The difference between the two is that
> "Apply" makes the change and leaves you in the dialog box. "OK"
> makes the change and closes the dialog box.
>

Ken,

totally agree. If I programmed the dialog box, that's how I would have
programmed it. Thinking that maybe the programmer missed it on this
particular dialog box, I tried both approaches and I can confirm that
same result occured: did not fix the problem.

Heck, I'm trying everything.

Any thoughts on how I can get "auto-hide" back? I really like it. It's
missed. I'm gotten to the point I'll even consider a "re-boot" (which
I rarely do on this laptop) with the hope that it will come back. That
is not a preferred solution as I think there is a "root-cause" somewhere.

[Rob Schneider]

*snip*
>
> Any thoughts on how I can get "auto-hide" back? I really like it. It's
> missed. I'm gotten to the point I'll even consider a "re-boot" (which
> I rarely do on this laptop) with the hope that it will come back. That
> is not a preferred solution as I think there is a "root-cause" somewhere.
>

Following re-boot, task bar now works as expected.

Wish there was an explaination, but that's the way it goes, I guess.