Turn On or Off Auto-hide Taskbar in Desktop Mode in Windows 10  

I see another consequence of using these .bat
They affect the scrolling using both fingers at the touch pad. That function is very important.

Any suggestion to prevent that?

I'm running into something odd with this setting...

Let's assume I start with the default (auto-hide not enabled). I go into the registry and change the indicated octet from "02" to "03", logoff, then back on. I find that the taskbar still does not hide and when I look at the registry it's changed back to "02". Note that it does work if I change it through the GUI and the registry setting changes as expected.

In addition to changing it manually, I have tried it with a "REG ADD" command.

FYI, in case you care to know why I'm using a REG ADD, it's because I wrote a little code that reads in the whole long binary data and changes only the 02 to 03 making sure to preserve the rest of the string as is. REG ADD just scripts easily.

In any case, I cannot get the registry change to stick. Any thoughts?

Brink said:

Hello Hannes,

It looks like it will only get applied by restarting the explorer process after changing the registry value now.

It doesn't get applied anymore when signing out and in, or restarting the computer.

Genius! I would have never guessed that. I would have thought for sure that a logoff / logon or a restart would work so that's what I tested with.

So, thanks to your many excellent tutorials I now have a single script that sets all kinds of preferences for me in one shot on a new install.

The only one little thing I wish I could still do is to enable list view as the default view. I can't seem to find anything to automate that (other than when I create a complete sysprep image).



Thanks once again for the help!

Brink said:

I suppose you could set a default folder view for all folders with list view.

Set Default Folder View for all Folders in Windows 10

Afterwards, back up the folder view settings to be able to restore them as needed.

Backup and Restore Folder View Settings in Windows 10

Thanks!

I noticed now with Windows 10 on my machine if I change the taskbar setting, the byte doesn't toggle between 03 and 02. It just stays 03. The .bat you posted earlier in the thread does work mind you. I need to detect if the auto hide feature is enabled but in my case this is not reliable enough. Is there any other way?