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erwynsof

What is up with my taskbar? Windows 7

Hi, I hope someone here can help, I'm on a Dell laptop, running 64 bit windows 7 and my taskbar is playing up...

This is a pic of the settings I use

This is a pic of it looking as if it's ontop of itunes or something

Again

On Chrome, it doesn't even show up, almost as if chrome is in full screen

Same again just on Word

Not really sure what is happening, as it always covers settings of programs and not being able to see battery life/the time is annoying.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Fixed, it seemed to be a problem with a tool recently installed to connect to interactive whiteboards, uninstalling it fixed it :)

Thanks for all of your time and suggestions!

Posted Aug 25, 2011, 1:53 PM UTC · edited

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Obidom•

you need to set the task bar to Auto hide for it to pop down...

and Small Icons will reduce the size of it

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erwynsofOP•

I don't want it to be hidden, or have auto-hide to work. I just want it to normally stay there.

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NRod1087•

Try to restore down the window (make it smaller) then unlock the taskbar and resize it. I had this problem before and that seemed to work. If not move the entire taskbar to one of the sides of your screen(left or right). It should be fixed after that. BTW are you using a taskbar manager like ultramon or multimon?

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erwynsofOP•

Neither worked :(

And I'm not using any applications for the taskbar, or anything that could possibly affect it.

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NRod1087•

Set to auto-hide then reboot. After reboot set to NOT auto-hide, reboot again. If that doesn't work try changing your theme.

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manwithabadheart•

Tried rebooting?

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erwynsofOP•

Yes :P

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sm0kers•

Try change the position of the taskbar and then back. If not, try switching resolution

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