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The 'refusing to auto-hide' taskbar on Windows has frustrated me for years and despite trying lots of hacks, only restarting the explorer process reliably works without fail when I can't locate which app is begging to be acknowledged.
I suspect there is one process regularly doing is. Is there anyway other than uninstalling app by app to track him down?
Update: By 'refusing to auto-hide', I refer to the issue when the taskbar automatically pops up and refuses to go down. Often this is due to a notification in the system tray which requires acknowledgement before the taskbar will go down. If one is lucky, the system tray will highlight the annoying app, other times not.
jontyc
Posted 2013-09-14T04:05:55.760
Reputation: 167
What's the "... 'refusing to auto-hide' taskbar on Windows" – Xavierjazz – 2013-09-14T04:21:47.353
As mentioned in http://superuser.com/questions/169899/any-way-to-force-the-windows-task-bar-to-hide-if-in-auto-hide-mode. Sorry, due to the thousands of times it's happened to me across multiple Windows OSs, I just thought it was a well known design issue.
– jontyc – 2013-09-14T04:39:59.170there is a program called "Taskbar Slapper" in existance on the web, I have not tried it yet, because like you I learned it has to do with notifications. I solved some of it by adjusting notifications, and removing or adjusting things that toss them up. (presentaly unsolved really) – Psycogeek – 2013-09-14T08:49:25.650
Tried Taskbar Slapper many years ago but didn't have much success with it (plus not too fond of the bandaids, I'd rather find the perpetrator). – jontyc – 2013-09-14T11:09:06.610