Taskbar Still shows up in full screen

[blindradio]

I selected my taskbar to be on auto-hide but while I'm gaming it pops up when I move the mouse to the bottom of the screen, I tried changing its location on the screen but I swipe my mouse on the whole screen.(Windows 10)

 

[R0GG]

If your taskbar shows means you're not in true full screen,
Even if you are in windowed mode, but using the whole monitor it shouldn't show up if on auto-hide except if there is a application soliciting it for update like a chat client flashing icon on the taskbar or a system Tray notification.
There is also an intermediate mode which is normal windowed game but frame-less or windowed borderless that could be achieved with some third party apps or sometimes glitches some games when going from full screen to desktop mode using ALT-TAB instead of the usual CTRL-ENTER or ALT-ENTER ( I use it all the time when playing Dirt3)

 

[Geef]

By default: ALT-ENTER changes from window mode to full screen. Sometimes I have trouble where I'll full screen a movie or something and it will still show the taskbar but if it does that just restart the computer and it goes away.

 

[R0GG]

I get that once in awhile where the the taskbar doesn't stay in auto -hide anymore and usually it's a app lurking somewhere that is requiring taskbar to " notify" about something (stealing focus repetitively) and even though I close all programs it still doesn't stay in auto-hide, obliging me to either log off or restart, but that happens very rarely as most of the time I can figure out what app is stealing focus and just end it.

 

[ShadyHamster]

Try going into task manager and restarting the 'Windows Explorer' process.
This has fixed my taskbar issues in the past.

 

[R0GG]

Good call shady, restarting Explorer (ending it then Run explorer)would very much help.

 

[ShadyHamster]

You don't need to end then re-run the task, you can just right click > restart.

 

[R0GG]

Still under windows 7 here, no restart option in task manager, maybe in windows 10, have a new rig with win 10 but don't use it often yet. but I have a batch file for restarting DWM (desktop windows manager in case of windows aero starts messing up)

 

[blindradio]

Thanks, Rogg, I found that my problem was that I didn't tap F11 and that would solve the problem by putting me on a full screen.

 

[R0GG]

You're welcome, but you solved it by yourself lol, I forgotten to mention that F11 is used as Full screen shortcut in some games, great that yo figured it out.
I have a question : when your taskbar shows and you thought you were in full screen, would the game have borders like a regular windowed game or would it be borderless? (looking like a full screen game )?

 

[blindradio]

The game showed it was borderless as a full-screen game, but the taskbar used to pop up whenever it scrolls to the bottom of the screen, but now thanks to myself and you my problem is finally solved.

 

[R0GG]

The game you're running - probably newer one- might have a dedicated windowed bordeless mode shortcut through ALT-ENTER or CTRL-ENT, either through game itself options or through the gaming software overlay (steam or origin) or even through graphic card software ( radeon and nvidia), not to mention other third party programs for game steaming etc like overwolf: a bit confusing.
Thanks for the reply, that's exactly what I get exiting full screen with ALT-TAB, I get to a windowed but borderless game window occupying full screen but I can hover around and un-hide taskbar and toggle around the other windows, I use it sometimes - coupled with a small software called Chameleon windows manager"( that has cool features like forcing stay-on-top) to have couple of small monitoring applications windows I drag to the corner of the screen staying always visible on top of the game window at a pseudo-full screen which is pretty neat for monitoring while on single monitor, but I think since it's not a true full screen, some game graphics settings would not be applied .