a problem with the feature "auto hide the task bar"

[JD Young]

Hi,

My XP's "auto hide the task bar" is always turned on. But sometimes the
task bar is not automatically hidden. Then the task bar blocks the bottom
part of the active window that may have buttons or horizontal scroll bars.
I normally need to close all the active windows to make XP back to normal.
Turning the "auto hide the task bar" option off and on again normally just
temporarily solves the problem. Do you have any solution other than
closing all the active windows? Your help is much appreciated.

Tony

 

[Stan Brown]

Hi,

My XP's "auto hide the task bar" is always turned on. But sometimes the
task bar is not automatically hidden. Then the task bar blocks the bottom
part of the active window that may have buttons or horizontal scroll bars.
I normally need to close all the active windows to make XP back to normal.
Turning the "auto hide the task bar" option off and on again normally just
temporarily solves the problem.

This is a known bug in XP. There's no permanent solution, as far as I
know, but see
http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/winxptip.htm#TaskbarAutohide
for one that works for me.