Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

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Post any questions or comments you have about Taskbar Eliminator here!

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

Alan (guest) 30 Jan 2010 09:45

Hi, I have Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 2. Taskbar Eliminator does exactly what I want it to do and I love the simplistic preferences, however the program only completely hides my taskbar for a few minutes. I have the program set to "Hide Taskbar"+"Start with Windows", but I constantly have to keep pressing alt+t to hide the taskbar again and again. It's probably my own fault but am I actually doing something wrong, or how can I fix this? I do love this program and it works better than all the other programs like it that I have used.

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

aviassin 30 Jan 2010 11:51

Hi Alan,

Could you give us any more information regarding this issue? Does the taskbar reappearance seem to be triggered by an event (balloon tips etc)? Do you have any other applications which could be altering the taskbar or triggering the hotkey?

Thanks :)

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

Alan (guest) 30 Jan 2010 12:21

It doesn't seem to be triggered by anything as far as I can tell. I turned off all of my program processes and just stared at my desktop for a few minutes before the taskbar popped up again. The only programs that I think might possibly affect it are VistaGlazz, Leftsider or Stardock Fences. Also, the taskbar is also on my screen on startup even though I have the program set to "Start with Windows" and I have it listed in my startup programs folder.

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

aviassin 30 Jan 2010 23:34

Hi Alan,

You seem to have an extremely odd problem, especially if ALL other programs were closed which might have inadvertently refreshed the taskbar. We'll look into it.. :)

In regards to the taskbar showing on startup, simply resize the taskbar to the smallest possible size, and the lock it, before running TB Eliminator. The taskbar should then be hidden on startup as well.

Thanks!

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

Alan (guest) 31 Jan 2010 00:20

I've tried minimizing the taskbar and locking it, but it still pops up. I'm thinking the program might not have installed correctly. I'll try reinstalling it and I will let you know if that works.

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

aviassin 31 Jan 2010 00:35

Taskbar Eliminator does not install, its a portable program. You won't be able to 'reinstall it'. When you say it pops up, what do you mean? That the tiny little sliver of taskbar that you can see when its totally minimized appears, or the full taskbar?

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

Alan (guest) 31 Jan 2010 02:42

The full taskbar comes up. Would it make a difference if I placed the taskbar somewhere else?

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

aviassin 31 Jan 2010 02:47

If the full taskbar is showing, despite you resizing the taskbar to nothing, it is not a problem with Taskbar Eliminator. There must be some other program or setting on your system which is causing this issue. There is simply nothing which would cause this problem in Taskbar Eliminator.

Good luck with solving your issue! Thanks :)

Paul (guest) 27 Dec 2011 08:52

I have the same problem, except im running on Windows 7.

I've figured out a couple reasons as to Why its failing.
1. Windows key + Tab on lesser machines seems to make the taskbar pop up.
2. sometimes theres a pop up that doesn't show up when gaming, say a windows update, and when you exit the game, the taskbar reappears.
3. alt+tab sometimes affects it too.
4. I'm on a new computer as of now and I'm no longer having the windows + tab problem but I'm having the same 1 problem that I've had on both machines; it doesn't hide it on start up.

The program will open up on start up but it wont hide it. First time i used it on this machine it worked fine. after i shut down, the next morning when i turned it on, the taskbar had returned.

Instead of hiding it on start up and every other time it fails to hide it, it instead checks off the auto-hide windows checkbox in preference.

I hope this helps as its really annoying when it randomly decided to un-hide and check off auto-hide. if you need tech specs of my computer, ill reply with them.

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

john n (guest) 13 Feb 2010 10:34

I love the program, but I have a similar problem as Alan, though i know whats causing the problem. Every time i use the volume keys on my keyboard, or lock and relogin to my desktop the taskbar will reappear. I change the volume often of course, so i have to push Alt-T constantly to rehide the taskbar. Any way to fix this?

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

aviassin 14 Feb 2010 07:07

Hi John,

Thanks for the extra info, we're fixing as many of these bugs as we can in each release. Logging out and then in again will definitely cause the taskbar to be shown again, as Windows Explorer is fully closed and opened again - theres nothing you can do at the moment. The volume issue we haven't heard before, we'll look into it! Thanks! :)

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

Steve (guest) 24 Feb 2010 07:47

Hi I'm using windows 7. When I enable the eliminator, everything works fine but then when I press the windows key the orb shows up by itself. I'm actually fine with that. As a matter of fact it looks great. But the thing is when I tried this the next day the orb was on top of all the windows that were open. Is this a bug to begin with that I'm finding useful? If it's not then how do I prevent the windows orb from being "always on top".

Thanks!

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

aviassin 24 Feb 2010 08:46

Hi Steve,

No - the orb showing isn't a bug, we've designed it that way for Windows Vista & 7. Unfortunately there isn't a way to display the orb not on top of all other Windows - basically there just isn't a way to do this in Windows (or at least we haven't discovered it).

If this annoys you too much, the only thing I can recommend is removing the orb totally with one of our Taskbar Eliminator Custom Builds - its only $5 US.

Good Luck! :)

Re: Problems Or Questions About Taskbar Eliminator

TheMagicSolution (guest) 12 May 2010 11:16

There is an answer, which you may or may not like.

Taskbar Eliminator worked wonderfully for me, but everytime something popped up in my system tray, like Ares or if I disconnected my laptop from the power source (thereby revealing the battery level), it would "break". The only solution I've found is disabling the system tray, using a registry hack: http://www.techmixer.com/disable-system-tray-icons-on-windows-xp-vista/

If you don't want to risk hacking your system, don't try it, but its very safe and very easy to reverse, IMO.
However, the TE still breaks if you log out of your system or put it on standby, but if you've put TE on a simple hotkey, like I have, it shouldn't be much of a problem, as you can just refresh it.

Again, TE still breaks for me, inexplicably, when I switch on Photoshop CS5. No other program, and certainly no previous version of Photoshop, does this.

Chris (guest) 01 Sep 2011 04:23

Yeah I have the same problem.
If I click on the system tray icon in Nexus, then the taskbar comes back up and I have to
use alt-T to remove it.

Any fix for this?

Cheers
Chris

Daniele Caruana (guest) 10 May 2014 10:14

I have been trying to deactivate the program because I need to stop using it but it doesn't stop, it doesn't even show up as a program anymore. PLEASE HELP!!!

Nixeras (guest) 13 Jan 2015 10:08

Running into a slight issue. When I run taskbar eliminator it works perfectly fine. Until I run something that goes into fullscreen. Any time I play a fullscreen game or run a fullscreen program when I exit the taskbar has popped back up again. Any way to fix this?

Fernando (guest) 02 Apr 2015 16:42

Hi! The program is very cool, it's what I needed to customize my desktop even further. I have a question though: how can I set Taskbar Eliminator to hide itself when my computer starts up? It hides the taskbar as expected on startup, but the window keeps open until I command it to hide. Can you help me please?

Francisco (guest) 05 Aug 2016 09:51

Why the taskbar pop up again later 3 mins. aprox.?
I'm using this program in windows 10, this work, but not this get auto close and I need re-open the program.
What can I do?