Windows 10: Taskbar Gets In The Way

I need to position my cursor arrow at the bottom of the screen in order to scroll left and right so that I can see what I am reading or typing (as now) but the taskbar (which I hope to avoid using) keeps jumping up and getting in the way whenever the arrow is near it. Can I hide the taskbar semi-permanently or move it to a side? Thanks .........

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Can't access start menu. Cortana gets in the way saying it has problems hearing me. How to fix?

I haven't tried that yet but so far the start menu and everything seem to be working just fine. Maybe it was happening during the time I didn't have any OneDrive folder (between taking it off the hard drive and putting it on the SD card) and now that I actually
have a OneDrive folder it is working correctly.

But thanks for the help!

 

Can't access start menu. Cortana gets in the way saying it has problems hearing me. How to fix?

Press Control + Shift + Esc

Select the Processes tab

Scroll down then select Windows Explorer

Select it then click Restart

If you see Cortana in the list too, select it then click Restart.

Run the Start menu troubleshooter:

http://aka.ms/diag_StartMenu

 

A simple workaround would be to use the keyboard arrow keys instead of mouse to scroll horizontally.

Another workaround is to move the Taskbar to left or right, screenshot shows a vertical Taskbar at left:

 

Thanks: I couldn't drag the taskbar to the side (as on earlier Windows versions). Also, hitting the Settings icon does not do anything .......

 

Is your taskbar unlocked? If it's locked you can't drag it to the side. Right click Taskbar, select Lock the taskbar to toggle lock / unlock:




You can also change the Taskbar location from Taskbar Properties:

 

Yes, I've now managed to drag it to a side ........... Thanks