Task bar wont hide

barmonkey

I am using Windows 7 and until yesterday the taskbar was set to auto hide. Switched on yesterday and the taskbar is always on top, checked all the taskbar properties and they are fine, reset them and set back to auto hide but it still appears perminantly on top of everything.

Anyone got any ideas

RumRat

Does it still act the same after a restart?

barmonkey

RumRat wrote: »

Does it still act the same after a restart?

yes, it makes no difference

sparkyspark

From what I gather the taskbar won't autohide when there is a running program that needs attention. Some programs have settings you can change that will keep notifications from causing the taskbar to do this.
Check the icons in your notification area. If there is a notification, say, in the Action Center, then the taskbar will not hide until the notification is responded to.
Also, if you have a pending update notification, or an "update completed" notification, this will also keep the taskbar unhidden.

RumRat

Are there any messages in the action center that need attention. This can stop auto hide until the problem is addressed.

Ahh I see Sparky posted as I was typing ....:D

barmonkey

RumRat wrote: »

Are there any messages in the action center that need attention. This can stop auto hide until the problem is addressed.

Ahh I see Sparky posted as I was typing ....:D

No, only thing on the task bar is the Chrome icon

RumRat

barmonkey wrote: »

No, only thing on the task bar is the Chrome icon

Right hand side of the task-bar, by the clock click on the small arrow to see the hidden running programs. See if you can view messages in the Action center as well from there.