Taskbar won't stay hidden During Video Playback

[elocrian]

Hello all. I have been looking in all the usual places for a solution to this problem with no luck!

While watching any and all video in full-screen (An a browser, with VLC, etc.) the taskbar and cursor will disappear for as it should. But sooner or later (usually sooner) they will both reappear. Now the taskbar stays "hidden", but I can still see the top of it peeking out at the bottom of the screen. If I take the video out of full-screen and then restore it - some thing.... a bit of perfect picture until this irritating interruption.
This issue began a few weeks ago, and may certainly be related to having to do a clean install of my NVidia driver to correct the nvlddmkm.sys error that was causing system crashes.

I was going to try a system restore in an act of desperation, but there is only one restore point from three days ago (!?!?!)

Of course, I have tried all the "easy fixes" like turning on the auto-hide feature on and off, and - No, this has NOTHING to do with the notification area. Also, Running the System File Checker Tool found nothing.

I am slowly going crazy over this. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you all!

 

[Colif]

Did you do something like this to repair graphics drivers? http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2767677/clean-graphics-driver-install-windows.html
It still looks like its related to gpu drives
sfc only finds problems in files, doesn't fix how they work.

did you get a windows update on Tuesday that started PC several times and took 20 minutes? That was a new version of win 10 and explains why you don't have any older system restore dates.

 

[elocrian]

Thanks for the post!

Yes, I did this: http:// which looks to be the same method using DDU.

I have not upgraded to WIN 10 as I really like Win 7 - plus, I am probably looking at getting a new PC in the next year or so.... This one is showing it's age.

I just tried installing the update and it froze - which never happens. I will try again tonight.

At this point I am considering just getting rid of the taskbar all together and using something else like Winstep Nexus or Circle Doc.

 

[Colif]

you posted in a win 10 forum so I assumed you had 10. Not sure whats going on with system restore then.

 

[elocrian]

soooooooooooooo... I seem to have found a stupid simple solution from a suggestion from my Dad of all people... I'm the one that fixes all his computer problems! As long as I F11 - including in VLC - the issue stays hidden!!!!!

It's still happening - but beneath the full screen mode!!!!!!

On a side note - are you not bothered by Win 10's aggressive privacy invading issues????

 

[Colif]

Privacy - not really. I mean, its a issue but with Google & Apple already sucking up everyones communications on other devices, why single out MS? That with social media doing the same, is any communication private anymore? Unless its written on paper and not sent by mail, its a good question.

Pay back from dad. Perhaps not ideal solution but it works.

 

[elocrian]

so actually - the problem has disappeared. Possibly it was something in the Windows update as you suggested.

Regarding Win 10, I suppose I'll have no choice when I buy a new computer. Mine doesn't like to start up lately - hangs on the pre-Windows screen. It was top of the line when I bought it from Cyperpower, but that was at least a decade ago. Processor is too old to really do any more upgrades. It's too bad because - especially after adding more Ram, it more than meets my needs - just afraid one day the hard drive or motherboard is gonna go 🙁

Thanks for all your input. All in all - I am a Windows PC fan - even have a Windows phone which I like more than iOS. Too bad more people don't feel the same way!