Good luck. I had similar problems, and used the same workaround, on both
XP86 and XP64. XP64 eventually fixed itself, XP86 never did, but isn't used
much.
"Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:13f13n5ig0qna27@xxxxxx
Quote:
> For the first two weeks I had my new Dell Inspiron 1520 (Vista Home
> Premium)
> the auto hide Taskbar worked correctly. Now the Taskbar is always visible
> when auto hide is on; the Taskbar is then on top of all windows, but when
> maximized the bottom of windows disappear under the Tool Bar. When auto
> hide is turned off, all windows maximize to, but not under the Taskbar.
>
> Is there a solution to this problem? I found a work around (use Task
> Manager to kill explorer.exe, then run explorer.exe), but I'd rather find
> a
> permanent solution, or at least a report that Microsoft is working on the
> problem.
>
> Phil Weldon
>
>