Windows 7 auto-hide task bar is broken
Update. As promised I also put this in the comments: For what it's worth, killing and restarting explorer on Windows 10 as of this date (2024-04-15) worked for me to restore the taskbar to autohiding: taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe & explorer Windows 7 auto-hide task bar is broken. In fact, the 'auto-hide' option for the task bar has been broken since some time prior to Windows XP SP3. There is, as of this writing, no proper fix to this problem and as near as I can tell, Microsoft has not even acknowledged that it is an issue. In recent years, software manufacturers have taken to ducking some of the most irritating bugs by saying that they are 'by design'. This is not an explanation and it does not in any way absolve them of correcting the issue. SideRant: I have more confidence in my opinion of this matter than I do of theirs. I have been writing software for decades and have worked with every version of Windows since version 2 (before 3, 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, X...