#WINDOWS 7 TASKBAR CHANGED TO CLASSIC WINDOWS#

I normally use the 'Classic' Windows style, with all animations disabled. The task bar should raise no matter what. See my comments below for some more info. To reproduce this behavior, I tried switching between apps, and bringing apps to open other windows. I am unable to directly reproduce this behavior so far. So far, it appears to happen out of the blue, sometimes multiple times a day. If my memory serves correctly, I have seen this behavior on earlier versions of Windows as well, XP at least, but not nearly as often as currently on Windows 7. To answer the question posed by the 'helpful' support engineer on the above page, of course I am running some apps when this happens, usually Windows Task Manager (minimized to notification area), Windows Explorer, Firefox, Eclipse, Cygwin/X, Xterm, Cygwin Emacs, gitk, git gui, Notes, a chat client, a VPN client, a Firewall. How can I fix the taskbar's auto-hide? (Microsoft Community Post) Searching for 'Windows 7 task bar auto-raise' shows that at least one other person experienced this problem: Has anyone else noticed this? How do I avoid this? Once I've done this, the task-bar auto-rises again. Pressing the 'Windows' key (or Ctrl-ESC) makes the start menu appear, forcing the task bar from hinding as well. Usually, it works fine: As soon as the pointer touches the screen bottom, the task bar pops up. I personally edit the registry to do away with that since it gets in my way, but thatвЂ™s a personal preference.In Windows 7, I use the 'Auto-hide the task bar' feature. The only change in them is you lose the taskbar thumbnails when moving down from Aero. Smart Window arrangement still works in Basic and Classic modes as it does with Aero.

Please when writing an article from a tech aspect be accurate, say that Aero makes your experience more visually enjoyable, but nothing about it does what you say it will. I personally like Aero and use it, but your statement was and is a little incorrect, using Aero by no means speeds up the system, does not improve stability, or improves productivity. Using windows classic will always be a developers main choice since it means less resources for the visual elements of windows.

#WINDOWS 7 TASKBAR CHANGED TO CLASSIC WINDOWS 7#

I can combat your statement about stability by saying on my Dell D630 Windows 7 experiences problems with a triple screen setup with desktop composition enabled (Aero) turn it off (Basic) and the issues are gone. The hardcore fact is that using Aero enables additional visual elements and settings, which use up more system resources. I know this is a little out of date, but IвЂ™m trying to figure out why you would say that using Aero would mean the user would be better off with Aero in terms of performance, stability and productivity. and if thatвЂ™s so then it canвЂ™t be proven either way, it could even be windows 95 with a windows 7 screenshot as a background.Although in the beta it says taskbar I have heard of the superbar. 1-Actually, if you look at the right of the taskbar in every picture it has the show desktop button, which I use constantly if programs wonвЂ™t(or canвЂ™t) minimize,2- and the REALLY easy to tell thing about it being Windows 7, is the watermark in the bottom right corner of the desktop(It says Windows 7- For test purposes only.Build 6801)(and NO it is NOT part of the background, because it always stays there), 3-and when you have autohide on and the taskbar shows as it does in the pictures it will cover the watermark, but it shows the taskbar and it isnвЂ™t covering the watermark(I only mentioned this to prove that I can tell those small, differences4-Although the picture could have been copied into paint and edited to have a fake watermark, and used as the background, what about the show desktop button?,Just thought IвЂ™d help YOU UNDERSTAND THE VERY SMALL DIFFERENCES.And the only way for that to be faked is if the taskbar isnвЂ™t really open, and itвЂ™s all part of the background, or just a very well put together picture.

Windows 7 taskbar changed to classic