Windows 10: How do i disable always on-top taskbar ?

Hi, i recently updated to Win10 Anniversary yesterday.
When i played a borderless window game, the taskbar was still on top of the game.
Full-screen youtube was also affected by this.
Prior to upgrading to win10 Anniversary, it worked fine, i could play a game in a borderless window or watch youtube in full-screen with no problem.

My question is how do i disable the disable on-top feature? or is it a bug ?
Thank you in advance

*Edit: Problem solved by installing the latest updates from Windows Update.

:)

 

task bar

As far as I know, there is no UI option to disable "Always on Top" setting.

You may need a 3rd party program to do this: 7+ Taskbar Tweaker - RaMMicHaeL's Blog

 

Taskbar Always on Top

Until yesterday I had my Taskbar set to be always on top and to hide when the cursor is not over it, this makes it so I can blow the web browser up to 125% and the bar won't get in the way of the web page and everything looks nicer. If I wanted to switch
apps on the taskbar, because it was always on top, all I had to do was move the cursor down and up it pops ready for me to select an app. Yesterday I thought I wasn't doing things properly when I had the web browser maxed and I couldn't pull up the taskbar,
but I confirmed it today, the always on top option has been removed from the taskbar options and if any window, not even full screen, but a window that is too far down will prevent the taskbar from being brought up, and if it does come up for some reason it
is always behind the windowed application, obscuring which apps are where on the taskbar.

Please bring the taskbar always on top option back.

 

Hello,
I have the same problem. I have installed all updates and still, taskbar is always on top.

Right now I have version of Windows: 10.0.14393
What's yours?

 

Have you tried Taskbar settings? There's an "automatically hide" option therein (Right-click taskbar, choose Settings entry at the bottom of the pop up menu list).

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

Taskbar Auto-hide in Tablet Mode - Turn On or Off in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Customization Tutorials




HTH,
--Ed--

 

Actually this might be solution but it's not. Before anniversary update everything was ok. I dont want to teach myself how to work with autohide taskbar. I just dont want to have it all time on top.

 

Hello, I have this problem and would like to find a solution that doesn't require using auto-hide taskbar.

 

@alfredonevv , the latest update from Microsoft solves the problem. The new update from Microsoft is patching all the problems with anniversary update. So, just install new update and you are good to go.

 

My device is up to date and I still have this problem.

 

Having the same issue. This just started happening. Anyone resolve this?

 

Settings, Personalisation, taskbar, automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode, play full screen video check it goes away then go back to settings and turn that setting off. Worked for me.

 

I would like to be able to disable "always on top" and not use auto hide, since I would prefer that my task bar always be in place... there was a way to do it for Windows 7, is there one for Windows 10?

 

Yeah, if you go to Settings, Personalisation, taskbar, all the options are there for taskbar. Disable auto hide from there.

 

Hi, I still have this same issue despite having latest updates. Adjusting the taskbar settings does not help. The issue has arisen since the anniversary update and goes away if the anniversary update is removed so it is not related at all to the auto hide taskbar option which has been present since early versions of windows.

Any program flagged as "always on top" triggers it, even the windows calculator when set to be always on top will also force the taskbar to also be always on top.

An example in my case would be wanting to watch a video tutorial for something with the program itself running borderless fullscreen in the background, before the anniversary update I would just have the program and the video showing on my screen, but since the update I would instead now have the video, the program and the taskbar showing where the taskbar is covering up some of the program controls making it unusable.

 

I know how to turn autohide on and off, and even have a keystroke setting to turn it on and off without going into the settings, thanks to 7TT. But what I want is to change the "always on top" to not be "always on top". I did, again through 7TT, find a way to do that but basically it messes other things up. Like the start menu.

Anyway, here's to hoping microsoft can make that more flexible and add configuration options in the future.