WMC pinned behind taskbar

[Mark]

Could use a little help. I'm having an issue sometimes when I launch WMC it is pinned behind the task bar. Sometimes this also causes my remote not to work. Thank you for any input you may provide me with this annoyance.

[3rob3]

That happens to me with Win7 sometimes when using HuluLauncher. When I would exit Hulu, Media Center would re-launch but not have focus (and taskbar shown). If I just hit the green button again it would regain focus. Annoying but it worked. Does that work for you?

[Mark]

That does work most of the time, but sometimes the remote doesn't work until I use a left mouse click. For some reason the taskbar is getting priority.

[barnabas1969]

Have you changed the display option (Control Panel -> Display) so that everything is larger (125% or 150%)? I tried this a while back, and it resulted in the same problem you are experiencing. When I set it back to 100%, the problem went away.

[3rob3]

Interesting. I have increased size.....never would have guessed that!

[Mark]

I checked and the display is at the default 100%.

[LuckyDay]

I solved a problem like this by playing with the taskbar settings. If you have the taskbar locked or on auto-hide when a program needs your attention (when it's blinking in the taskbar) it will leave the taskbar in front of all of the windows.

Try turning off auto-hide if it's on, or disabling the 'lock the taskbar' setting.

[staknhalo]

This only happens to me when I remote into my machine.

[Mark]

I solved a problem like this by playing with the taskbar settings. If you have the taskbar locked or on auto-hide when a program needs your attention (when it's blinking in the taskbar) it will leave the taskbar in front of all of the windows.

Try turning off auto-hide if it's on, or disabling the 'lock the taskbar' setting.

Thanks LuckyDay. This did the trick I think. I will have to play around some more and give it a little time, but I do believe its all good now. It's funny because I remember looking at the task bar setting and thought I had turned off lock to see if that would fix it, but after you're recommendation I checked again and it was on. Thanks again!