Windows get hidden under taskbar

Hello, on this computer at work every once and awhile when I maximize the window like a MS office window or IE or anything it will go bellow the taskbar on IE it will cover the status bar under the taskbar, If I right click on the taskbar and choose lock then unlock it will push the window back to the correct size.

I hope I'm explaining this well enough to understand.

On a normal computer when you maximize a window it should go down and touch the top of the taskbar on this computer it goes all the way down below the taskbar coving the little bit at the bottom.


EDIT - The option in the propertys is set to keep it on top of windows

Edited by PoweredByGoogle, 05 December 2009 - 06:36 PM.

right click on the taskbar and go to properties uncheck auto-hide taskbar and make sure that keep taskbar on top of other windows is checked as well

Thats not the problem, its not hiding. The windows are going under the taskbar not stopping at the top of it

also have you manually resized the window it self if at some point you drug the edge to make the window larger it may just be remembering the last size try to manually size the window to the edge of the screen and just above the taskbar and see what happens after you close it and reopen it.

also have you manually resized the window it self if at some point you drug the edge to make the window larger it may just be remembering the last size try to manually size the window to the edge of the screen and just above the taskbar and see what happens after you close it and reopen it.

Not the case still trying to figure out why it does this.....

make sure the applications are not set to open full screen IE has a setting for full screen it will go edge to edge top to bottom if it's turned on

@ PoweredByGoogle

If you find a answer, I hope you'll post it. I have the exact same problem.
If I find an answer I'll be sure to post

I do not quite understand the description - maybe you can post up a screen shot.

See if pressing F11 relieves your condition.

Is your desktop theme customized? try resetting it to classic and then rebuilding it to what you had. Are you running some desktop manipulation software? If so that could be your issue. If your just using everything defalut then try changing themes and back to default. Another reason could be the wrong resultion settings for you video card.

@ joseibarra and JackJoMoFo

Thanks for your suggestions.
A reboot did the job.
I'm glad the problem is fixed. It annoys me though, that I didn't get a chance to find out what caused the problem.
I hope you suggestions can help PoweredByGoogle.

@ joseibarra and JackJoMoFo

Thanks for your suggestions.
A reboot did the job.
I'm glad the problem is fixed. It annoys me though, that I didn't get a chance to find out what caused the problem.
I hope you suggestions can help PoweredByGoogle.

I just kept unlocking and locking the tool bar and going into the options and choosing to stay on top of other windows turn that on and off a bunch of times and it fixed it once I did each about 5 times. LOL

Y'all aren't talking about the cool feature where the yellowish rectangular Tooltip information popup box is partially hidden behind the Taskbar when you hover the mouse over an icon in the Taskbar, are you?

@ joseibarra and JackJoMoFo

Thanks for your suggestions.
A reboot did the job.
I'm glad the problem is fixed. It annoys me though, that I didn't get a chance to find out what caused the problem.
I hope you suggestions can help PoweredByGoogle.

I just kept unlocking and locking the tool bar and going into the options and choosing to stay on top of other windows turn that on and off a bunch of times and it fixed it once I did each about 5 times. LOL

Never mind still having the problem, I will try to get a screen shot