Task-bar often fails to retract.

[NoHtmlMailsPlease]

I think you call it the task-bar,
which was at the bottom by default.
I've moved it to the RHS; but still have the same problem:
it, for no reason which I can discover, often does not retract.
Like NOW it's obstructing 10% of the screen, including the
important top/RHS corner of this frame.

How do you people tolerate this MicroSloth crap,
which I'm forced to use for this particular wireless modem?

-> <start> -> taskbar -> stuff
didn't allow me to 'hide the task bar'.
How do YOU do it?

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

I think you call it the task-bar, which was at the bottom by default.
I've moved it to the RHS; but still have the same problem: it, for
no reason which I can discover, often does not retract. Like NOW it's
obstructing 10% of the screen, including the important top/RHS corner
of this frame.

How do you people tolerate this MicroSloth crap, which I'm forced to
use for this particular wireless modem?

-> <start> -> taskbar -> stuff didn't allow me to 'hide the task
bar'. How do YOU do it?

We lose the anti Microsoft attitude and learn to use what we have. I
assume you have "Auto-hide the taskbar" enabled, but it is not hiding
when you want it to. The taskbar will not retract if it has the focus.
Try clicking on something other than the taskbar when it is not retracting.

 

[NoHtmlMailsPlease]

I think you call it the task-bar,
which was at the bottom by default.
I've moved it to the RHS; but still have the same problem:
it, for no reason which I can discover, often does not retract.
Like NOW it's obstructing 10% of the screen, including the important
top/RHS corner of this frame.

How do you people tolerate this MicroSloth crap,
which I'm forced to use for this particular wireless modem?

-> <start> -> taskbar -> stuff didn't allow me to 'hide the task bar'.
How do YOU do it?

I just found that when I remove the USBstik, the task-bar
retracts. What an idiotic OS ?!

 

[Sir_George]

I just found that when I remove the USBstik, the task-bar
retracts. What an idiotic OS ?!

Perhaps purchasing a different wireless modem would be in your best
interest, then you could change to the operating system you of your
choice.

 

[XS11E]

What an idiotic OS ?!

The OS is fine, the user is an idiot.

 

[Thip]

I just found that when I remove the USBstik, the task-bar
retracts. What an idiotic OS ?!

Do you have a ring of armed terrorists around you forcing you to use it?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

The OS is fine, the user is an idiot.

I am trying to find a way to disagree with you, just to be ornery

Without success...

I can't imagine how the OP's task bar occupies 10% of the screen. Mine
occupies 3.5% at the bottom, and when I move it to the side to check his
report, it drops to only 2.1%. Silly me, I actually measured these
numbers

OT: I'm so used to the bottom configuration that I am *very* confused
while the TB is on the right.

 

[SC Tom]

I am trying to find a way to disagree with you, just to be ornery

Without success...

I can't imagine how the OP's task bar occupies 10% of the screen. Mine
occupies 3.5% at the bottom, and when I move it to the side to check his
report, it drops to only 2.1%. Silly me, I actually measured these
numbers

OT: I'm so used to the bottom configuration that I am *very* confused
while the TB is on the right.

Jeez, Gene, you must have more free time than even I have LOL!!

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Jeez, Gene, you must have more free time than even I have LOL!!

I'm retired - what can I say...

 

[SC Tom]

I'm retired - what can I say...

Me, too, but I don't have quite that much time. . .

Hope you're enjoying your retirement as much as I'm enjoying mine

 

[NoHtmlMailsPlease]

Me, too, but I don't have quite that much time. . .

Hope you're enjoying your retirement as much as I'm enjoying mine

I concede that the task-bar conceals less than 10% of my screen.
I work in increments of 10% for such matters, and rounding down to zero
would be inappropriate.
Importantly the Win7 device is a net-book , with less height on the display
than the normal
aspect-ratio. Altho' right now it's also displaying on a standard PC VDU and
nothing less is cut-off
below.
Accordingly, I moved the task-bar to the side.
You would know that many'/most 'frames'have the button at the bottom.
Even without the task bar STUCK_OUT these buttons are often inaccessible.
That's my main reason to move the task-bar to the side.
In fact the stuck out is MUCH WORSE than losing 10% screen area:
it covers the critical controls on the RHS eg. scroll-bar and icons.
Perhaps I can move it to LHS.

I tried to post that I'd discovered that when I remove the USBstik, the
task-bar
retracts.

Can you try something a bit more complex than <move the cursor off
the task-bar>, to explain how you, next time, you go on-line:
1. d/l 50 of the latest headers for a dozen newsgroups that you 'marked
while off line'.
2. d/l the articles which you 'marked while off line'
3. post the articles which you wrote while off line.
4. see the progress of tasks 1 to 3 above.

Using the default Windows Live Mail.

== TIA.

 

[KCB]

I concede that the task-bar conceals less than 10% of my screen.
I work in increments of 10% for such matters, and rounding down to zero
would be inappropriate.
Importantly the Win7 device is a net-book , with less height on the
display than the normal
aspect-ratio. Altho' right now it's also displaying on a standard PC VDU
and nothing less is cut-off
below.
Accordingly, I moved the task-bar to the side.
You would know that many'/most 'frames'have the button at the bottom.
Even without the task bar STUCK_OUT these buttons are often inaccessible.
That's my main reason to move the task-bar to the side.
In fact the stuck out is MUCH WORSE than losing 10% screen area:
it covers the critical controls on the RHS eg. scroll-bar and icons.
Perhaps I can move it to LHS.

I tried to post that I'd discovered that when I remove the USBstik, the
task-bar
retracts.

Since you need to remove the USB stick to make the Taskbar hide, then it
must be the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon which is keeping the Taskbar
active. Have you tried hiding this icon, when you have the USB stick
attached to the computer?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Using the default Windows Live Mail.

Not the default.

It is not even provided with Windows if you get it from MS. Some OEMs
put it in their computers for free; otherwise you must download it
yourself.

Which is a bad idea if you are dong newsgroups, since WLM doesn't quote
properly, which makes threads hard, sometimes impossible, to follow.