My locked taskbar overlaps maximized windows.

Anonymous
2010-05-18T15:03:00+00:00

My locked taskbar covers the bottom of all my maximized windows. I don't want to auto-hide my taskbar if I can help it, I like my taskbar locked. But when it is locked, I can't access the bottom of any window, be it a word document, my music player, or my internet browser.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-22T13:12:52+00:00

    1). Start Taskmanager

    2). Go to processes

    3). End/kill explorer.exe

    4). Go to applications

    5). New task

    6). Enter explorer.exe

    This solved the issue for me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-14T12:23:12+00:00

    This worked perfectly for me :

    Takes a minute to work.

    1)Set AUTOHIDE on.

    2)goto taskmanager and kill the explorer.exe (end the process)

    3)start new task and type in explorer.exe

    4)should return back to normal otherwise set autohide off

    5)kill and restart the explorer.exe

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-05-18T22:13:03+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-02-06T08:56:52+00:00

    Press F11, it switches between modes

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  5. Anonymous
    2010-09-06T23:54:25+00:00

    I would suggest you to resize the task bar and check if it helps.

    Yes, increasing the size and then decreasing it does fix it but it's not really ideal to keep doing this is it? In other words, it's a bug that Microsoft hasn't/can't be bothered to fix.

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