greetings,
Wouter

The Alt+t and ctrl+alt+t hotkeys worked the very first time I used them but after that all I'm getting is a ping. Also, the Start button on the taskbar has gone.

Any ideas how to fix this? Can TE be uninstalled?

cho griggs

I just wanted to tell you that I love your taskbar eliminator software! You are the last resource to all pro users that value each pixel on the screen. Since M$ removed the "always on top" feature from the taskbar in W7 (it is turned ON by default and cannot be turned OFF), there were many discussions that eventually led to a hack that saved the day for millions, including myself (http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/54842-taskbar-always-top-disable-enable.html). Unfortunately, that hack stopped working after SP1. That is when i started searching for a solution and I have found your software, that saved the day again.

I hope you don't mind me making a request/idea for you - if your hotkeys could at least resemble the standard Windows combination for invoking the start menu together with start bar (control+escape) and provide a similar use case (unhide the taskbar together with popping start menu), imho that would be awesome. You could provide back for the community what M$ took away in W7 completely.

Thanks for everything!

I really like this tweaking app. It's well thought out and works quite well.

I'm just wondering if it is at all possible to make it not resize the active desktop area (right now it expands and squishes the desktop icons every time you hide and show the taskbar) by having a setting that keeps entire desktop area fully usable by the desktop icons and any open windows if it is enabled.

This would also get rid of windows remaining squished after showing and hiding the taskbar.

If I use the built-in auto-hide this doesn't occur, but then I have that single pixel tall top portion of the taskbar peeking out at the bottom of the screen and the taskbar notifications make the taskbar appear. Both of which are annoying and are the reasons why I installed Taskbar Eliminator.

I like being able to toggle the taskbar on and off, so the custom builds don't fulfill my needs unfortunately.

Thanks for reading. I really hope you can address this behavior through some means or another. It would make Taskbar Eliminator perfect.

For some reason my taskbar eliminator are not hiding the taskbar during startup. Is that normal??? What do I have to do in order to hide my taskbar during startup???

Im running windows 7 prof.

thank you in advance

PC

Nice work guys!

i still require the system tray quite frequently, so i've taken to just moving my taskbar over to the right side of my screen, auto-hiding it, and keeping rocket dock auto-hidden on the bottom. happy days. works beautifully for my purposes, but i fully understand the desire and pursuit of getting rid of the taskbar altogether.

the reason i've gotten into all this auto-hide stuff is because over the past couple months i've discovered the joy of using firefox in fullscreen mode. with rocket dock available but out-of-sight on the bottom, my address bar and search enging bar along with bookmarks toolbar and tabs bar (if more than one) all auto-hidden, every inch (pixel) on my screen is dedicated to my surfing. it's absolute bliss. (especially when you stumble upon sights like the homepage for Alvaro Puentes Photography — stumbled across it last night, while in fullscreen, and actually gasped. simple black and white photo, but uninterrupted by anything else on the screen. wonderful.)

the reason i'm mentioning all this is: when firefox is in fullscreen mode, the taskbar is nowhere to be found. now, maybe it's a fluke of my system setup (FF 3.5.5, xp sp3, etc), but no matter what the taskbar is set to (auto-hide, normal, locked or unlocked), as long as firefox is the active application and in fullscreen mode, i can't access or bring up the taskbar unless i use the windows key to pop up the start menu. (very much like the desired functionality of this "working" and other, let's say "imitation" taskbar eliminators.)

not that i don't appreciate the development of such a useful tool — as do several others, judging by the positive comments here and on the old KaneBT site — but i just wanted to mention, since i haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, that, if firefox has this kind of "power" to 'disable' the taskbar completely while active in fullscreen, surely there must be some basic little toggle in the explorer shell to allow for this. and hey, what do i know, maybe that's the very toggle that this handy little TE app here exploits/uses/impliments.

either way, keep up the great work. you're obviously making a lot of people's dreams come true.
just wanted to throw my 2 cents in.

C.

Drift over a corner, taskbar and Start button appears (with autohide Off), drift back over the corner, it eliminates (including the Start button, so with autohide On).

I've cobbled together a few individual tools to do that fairly simple thing and it woks very well.

But to do it, I have to use your Eliminator, another little tool called toggleTaskbarAutohide.exe, Autohotkeys to trigger them both, and another little app called Hot Corners2 to trigger it with a corner drift.

As I said, it works without a hitch, but not a very elegant setup. Could you get at least the autohide part integrated into the Eliminator? Or may the whole fuctionality?

so then we could run Taskbar Eliminator, it would toggle the status (if currently hidden, change to show; and vice versa). then the program quits automatically (without having to go to the preferences and clicking "exit").

cheers :)

one question though, is there a way i could assign another key or key combination (i.e. alt+F12) to launch the start menu instead of the windows button?

thanks,
ryan

Thanks!