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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP
- Date added: July 07, 2006
- Total Downloads: 2,710
- Downloads last week: 17
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 6 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This tiny freeware program claims to hide and control the taskbar, but that didn't prove to be the case when we put it to the test. Hide Taskbar requires no installation; just unzip the executable file to use it. The program is accessible from the system tray. Strangely, you won't find any special features or customization pleasantries since the Settings screen is empty. What's more, it never managed to conceal the taskbar when we moved the mouse cursor away. It wasn't until we enabled Windows' auto-hide taskbar that the program surprisingly "worked," putting the taskbar out of sight. All things considered, if you're looking for a tool to hide your taskbar, you might want to skip Hide Taskbar and continue searching.Publisher's description
From Ayriz :Prevents aplications from stealing focus if taskbar is refusing to auto-hide then forces it to hide. If you set taskbar as auto-hide and want a taskbar only appears when the mouse arrives at the edge of the screen use this small utility.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.7 stars out of 6 votes
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Version: Hide Taskbar 1
Pros: First of all I had problems with the XP taskbar. I had autohide on but the taskbar didn't autohide for some reason. I checked some support forums and solutions seemed to work for some but some of the solutions were kind of complicated.
I didn't want to do anything too drastic so I decided to give this software a try. I installed "Hide Taskbar" and though the Editors review says otherwise, it works like charm. I just downloaded and installed it and after that my taskbar autohide works again.
I'm very happy with this.
Cons: Nothing negative has come up.
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Version: Hide Taskbar 1
"It is great, it makes Microsoft's auto hide function work."
Pros: Have you ever had a problem with the the taskbar staying on top of your apps even after you check-mark autohide in Properties/General? "Hide Taskbar fixes that problem and makes the taskbar hide when autohide is check-marked.
Cons: no problems - does not misbehave
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Version: Hide Taskbar 1
Pros: I like to minimize the stuff I don't want anyone to see to the taskbar and that when I mouse away from it it hides itself despite where the focus is.
Cons: Sometimes it doesn't force the auto-hide. Once in a while an IM window will steal the focus and hidetaskbar doesn't do anything about it.
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Version: Hide Taskbar 1
Pros: Does what it says on the box.
Seems to work on vista ok.
no bull, just works out the boxCons: App author should change the app name: suggestion: 'TaskBar StayDown'
Summary: The editors review got it wrong: this app is not supposed to hide the task bar (windows does that for you) This app stops other apps 'stealing focus', or popping up the already hidden task bar - which is a pain when you're trying to work.
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Version: Hide Taskbar 1
Pros: CNET Staff didn't really catch how to use this. If you checked auto-hide taskbar in the properties menu and it simple doesn't... Running this little program forces the auto-hide to work when it sometimes doesn't want to.
Cons: I have not seen it fail yet but just started. the settings dialog has nothing but an exit button in it.
[not that it needs anything else but you get the option to exit in the menu that gets you to the settings so it's redundant]Summary: Give it a try, have auto-hide enabled, it worked for me and it's better than having a program work WITH windows auto-hide, than against it in my findings.
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