Windows XP: Enable/Disable the Auto-hide Taskbar

Contributed by gouthro

November 20, 2005

Tagged: Windows

The ‘auto-hide taskbar’ is where if your mouse isn’t over the taskbar it minimizes itself out of sight until you bring your mouse to it.

Start

2. Select Control Panel.

3. Click Appearance and Themes.

4. At the bottom there will be a choice called Taskbar and Start Menu click on that.

5. Under Taskbar there will be an option titled Auto-hide the Taskbar.

a. To disable the Auto-hide uncheck the corrisponding box.
b. To enable the feature check the box.

6. Click OK and your done.

embee

i once permanently autohid my taskbar in the registry and now cant find my saved copy of the regedit file to reverse that former change. no, the check box doesn't work

alan210

hi, i do exactly that but the taskbar still hides. it only do that with the internet exploreer window. my computer was not like that but i dropped it last night and its been doing it since then. hope u can help. thank you