Taskbar auto hide

[Ed Cryer]

We used to get lots of complaints on here about the taskbar failing to
withdraw, and covering essential parts of a window.
I haven't seen any for a while.
I found out recently that the primary cause of this is when some
dialogue window is open at the back; something like an autoplay menu.

Is that the explanation for them all? Or has someone got other, perhaps
unexplained, examples of it staying stuck?

Ed

 

[Bruce Hagen]

We used to get lots of complaints on here about the taskbar failing to
withdraw, and covering essential parts of a window.
I haven't seen any for a while.
I found out recently that the primary cause of this is when some dialogue
window is open at the back; something like an autoplay menu.

Is that the explanation for them all? Or has someone got other, perhaps
unexplained, examples of it staying stuck?

Ed

From what I have seen, the #1 culprit is a new icon in the SysTray such as a
Windows Update notification.

 

[Stan Brown]

From what I have seen, the #1 culprit is a new icon in the SysTray such as a
Windows Update notification.

Another of my pet peeves. I have Action Center set to "notification
only", but quite often the icon shows up, and then when I click on it
it tells me that there are no action items.

 

[...winston]

"Stan Brown" wrote in message
Another of my pet peeves. I have Action Center set to "notification
only", but quite often the icon shows up, and then when I click on it
it tells me that there are no action items.
I didn't know that Action Center had a 'Notify only' option....only the
ability to toggle off security or maintenance items for Windows and Security
related features.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Another of my pet peeves. I have Action Center set to "notification
only", but quite often the icon shows up, and then when I click on it
it tells me that there are no action items.

That makes sense. It is notifying you that there's nothing to notify you
about.

Note that I did *not* say that it makes *good* sense

It happens here too. On some level, it's too stupid to be annoying...

 

[Stan Brown]

That makes sense. It is notifying you that there's nothing to notify you
about.

The notifications are the text balloons, and it's not popping up one
of those.

(Yes, I know you were making a joke.)

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

The notifications are the text balloons, and it's not popping up one
of those.

(Yes, I know you were making a joke.)

And that remark made me laugh ...