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.

Any fix for this?

Cheers
Chris

Awesome idea… Shame it doesn't work.

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.

However I'm unable to paste thing from my print screen but I'm able to do so in windows paint.

Please help thanks

Yes, the final release of PaintRibbon Complete is taking longer than we expected! We're just trying to iron out all of the bugs from PaintRibbon. Also, Complete will be $9.99 - so we want to make sure you guys get your moneys worth! :) We're working hard adding as many new features as possible, and its looking awesome!

With free PaintRibbon, you should be able to draw line, circle, rectangle and star shapes. Do you have NET Framework 2.0 installed? Could you possibly give some more explanation as to the hanging issue? Is it occuring on both startup and shutdown? What exactly happens? Does it run fine at all times except starting and closing?

Thanks!

The error occurs because at the moment PaintRibbon can only open .pic image files, trying to open any others will give this error.

Thanks,

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! :)

Thanks!

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! :)

PaintRibbon Complete will look almost identical to Windows 7 Paint. It has the full scenic ribbon and a massive amount of new features over the current PaintRibbon. We'll be releasing as soon as we possibly can! :)