W2k Task Bar Intermittent Hide Issues

[savincent1]

I like to have my Task Bar Hidden to have more screen space, I ahve done this for years and now I am getting issues, intermittently, where I can not bring the task bar up when I move my mouse down to it while in different applications. One crazy thought was that the program I was running would not allow the Task Bar to be active while the program was active. Well IE 5, 5.01 SP2, IE 5.5, IE 6 should not stop the Task Bar from coming up when needed. I have checked MS website and no articles on this issue are available, that I could find. I thought this was only on my home desktop W2k Pro, but it also happens on my Dell laptop with W2k Pro. I have ALL the updates from the windowsupdate.microsoft.com website on both units. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[VMWiseGuy]

My first thought is to check the properties on your task bar and be sure "Always on top" is checked. I have seen instances when this is not checked, that the app in front steals the focus and won't let go.

Another tip that has worked for me is to do a ctrl-alt-del and select the Task Manager. Once it started, try the task bar and see if it's alive again. If the focus changes to a system app, it seems to help get things back in order again.

Good luck! JSV

 

[savincent1]

Thanks for your reply. Yep, it is marked to always be on top. I will check the latter suggestion and try ctrl-alt-del next time and see if that works.