taskbar won't hide itself

[Richard H Paul]

My taskbar is stuck in the up position and I like to have it hide itself
when not in use. For some reason this has stopped working. I have chosen the
"autohide taskbar" option under "Properties" on the right-clicked taskbar
menu. The taskbar hid itself once then stuck back up again and won't go down
into hidden position. Why might this happen and how to fix it?

 

[Guest]

Try this:
Enter task manager, find explorer.exe and end that process. Go to file in
the task manager window and click new task(run).
Type "Explorer"
click OK

Then you may notice that some of the icons on the system tray are already
gone. If you have Ghost installed, it has a system tray application which is
keeping the taskbar up because its continually in use. If you close Ghost's
helper, the taskbar would behave correctly. Other applications may be similar
so try exiting them in your system tray.