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Thread ID: 63817 2005-11-23 20:09:00 Autohide not working for Taskbar Dozo (9293) Press F1
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406848 2005-11-23 20:09:00 I recently reformatted,reinstalled Xp, everything going fine apart from one annoying feature, the auto hide for the taskbar will not work no matter what I do. I have ticked "Hide inactive icons" in properties for taskbar. Nothing I do seems to make any difference. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Dozo (9293)
406849 2005-11-23 20:16:00 gidday,

right click taskbar, click properties, place a tick, in auto hide taskbar,
click, ok all the way out.

cheers,

Robby
Robby (3123)
406850 2005-11-23 20:18:00 Within that menu also.. click on customise, then hide any icons you dont want to see.
Click on the icon, and select always hide
Myth (110)
406851 2005-11-24 00:17:00 Thanks for the suggestions, but I have done all that and still nothing happens.
Normally there is an arrow on the lefthand side of the taskbar, that is not there and I presume "Hide Inactive Icons" won't work until the arrow appears.
Dozo (9293)
406852 2005-11-24 03:55:00 Are any of the icons actually "inactive"? Try changing the systray icons to always hide for each of them and see if the tray arrow appears. Jen (38)
406853 2005-11-24 04:50:00 find ure prefetch folder open it and delete the contents,and restart .this will cause xp to rebuild the file of icons and may fix the problem. ferrite (4221)
406854 2005-11-24 06:20:00 Thank you very much Jen. I did what you suggested and it now works perfectly. Very much appreciated. I had tried everything and nothing worked. Dozo (9293)
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