increasing mouse hover time for 'taskbar' itself

Question

Hello, I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate and I set it to auto-hide a taskbar for a long time ago. Usually, when I hover on it, it'll slowly show up, which made it different form xp, and I like it so much. But recently (just now) I noticed that it show up instantly when I hover on it and it hide instantly too after I move the mouse away. (I'm talking about the taskbar, not icons on it (the aero peek) which is working fine) I'm just curious if it has something to do with a registry entry? I'm in no hurry. I appreciate your kind in helping, thank you very much!

Answer 1

Hi Aptx.4869,

You cannot change the settings to increase or decrease the speed of Auto hide option to display or hide the taskbar. The behavior is by default.

Since you noticed that the auto hide of the taskbar is faster to display or hide than expected, you may check for the same on a new user account, if it works as expected.

To create a new user account, follow the steps below:

1. Open User Accounts by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking User Accounts and Family Safety (or clicking User Accounts, if you are connected to a network domain), and then clicking User Accounts.
2. Click Manage another account. Administrator permission required. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
3. Click Create a new account.
4. Type the name you want to give the user account, click an account type, and then click Create Account.

If it works fine in the new user account, you may access the link and follow the steps toFix corrupt user profile:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows7/Fix-a-corrupted-user-profile

Hope this helps. Let us know the result.

Thanks and Regards,

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Srinivas R

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Answer 2

Hi Aptx.4869,

We are glad to hear that the issue has been resolved by creating a new user profile.  Please feel free to contact us back, in case you face any other issues in future.

Thanks and Regards,

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Srinivas R

Microsoft Support.

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Answer 3

Thank you so much! I tried those step and it works! Anyway, I just created new temp. acc, copy those files you said not to copy (because all files and folders in my acc. ate up to 11GBs of HDD, (I got very small left on C: even I got plenty left on other on my 1.5TB) then I log in to my old acc. It uses temp. profile and it says it will del. itself after logoff. All my programs which run on startup were gone, together with theme, desktop icons, wallpaper and all previously opened windows, but the taskbar was fine. so I reboot and login, then it says 'group policy failed to login... access denied' I try reboot but it still denied me, so I try copy 'those' files back to its place(with another admin acc.), then I try login again, and now it works! (I think it's my reg.-junk cleaner) Again, thank you so much!