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Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby bigmahlman » 11 Sep 2009 02:40

Just installed windows 7 professional on my htpc (got a free copy from school).
but got a major problem.
When i play videos in full screen the taskbar stays on top. I checked fullscreen, and always in front, I also unchecked the windows decerations box. I also made sure i didn't have the wallpaper mode on.
I remember the same thing happening with vista but i don't remember how to fix it.

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Re: Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby VLC_help » 11 Sep 2009 16:02

Have you changed DPI options?

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Re: Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby bigmahlman » 11 Sep 2009 16:06

yes, made them bigger for i could read the text on the screen.
I have it hooked up to my 45" lcd and deffenatly cant read text without upping the dpi.
Do i need to turn of dpi scalling for vlc somehow?

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Re: Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 11 Sep 2009 18:59

Maybe :D
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Re: Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby bigmahlman » 11 Sep 2009 20:14

what do you mean maybe.

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Re: Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby bigmahlman » 12 Sep 2009 01:57

got it, just had to disable some things on the properties tab ofthe aplications in windows.

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Re: Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby lindenb » 18 Sep 2009 18:30

Maybe you could post the steps you completed to fix the problem..

I found a setting last time i installed, to remove the taskbar on full screen (just like WMP) now i have reinstalled do you think i can find the fix..... NO....

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Re: Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby VLC_help » 18 Sep 2009 19:10

Right click vlc.exe, select Properties and from Compatibility tab tick the DPI option.

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Re: Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby icehavoc » 03 Nov 2009 20:04

I have the same problem with Windows 7 and the taskbar popping up when you click the fullscreen controls. I tried the compatiblity fix with DPI and that doesn't fix it. Any other ideas?

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Re: Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby B@T » 09 Dec 2009 18:33

I have the same problem on Windows 7 x64. I tried this dpi setting in compatibility options, but nothing changed.

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Re: Windows 7 taskbar stuck in front

Postby Zgembo » 10 Dec 2009 02:20

i have the same problem as well


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