7+ Taskbar Tweaker and Microsoft's inexplicable intractability
Once upon a time, you could set a Windows taskbar to do the following:
a) NOT autohide, which caused it to continually be popping up and down every time your mouse got near the bottom of the screen; and
b) still go underneath your active window (i.e. if you have a browser open and maximized, the taskbar should be underneath it, not on top of it eating up screen space).
You could get your taskbar to act this way using only the Windows taskbar settings. I mention this because it establishes, definitively, that such a thing is possible.
But in Windows 10 this option is not available anymore. Why? Because fuck you, that's why. Because a lot of their customers want it, and Microsoft has to show them who's the boss. Why do you think that they removed the option to control the background color of application windows? Because fuck you, that's why.
Enter 7+ Taskbar Tweaker. It lets you get back this basic functionality, and in addition does some other nice stuff for the taskbar (I use my television as a monitor, so I like the large icons option). Go take a look at the software.
Of course, in passing it also proves, yet again, that it is in fact possible to have your taskbar behave this way. Microsoft, why are the "autohide" and "stay on top" options not independent, as they used to be? It's clearly possible, and making them independent would take away nothing; users would simply have the option of having the taskbar behave the way they want.
Microsoft: Because fuck you, that's why.
a) NOT autohide, which caused it to continually be popping up and down every time your mouse got near the bottom of the screen; and
b) still go underneath your active window (i.e. if you have a browser open and maximized, the taskbar should be underneath it, not on top of it eating up screen space).
You could get your taskbar to act this way using only the Windows taskbar settings. I mention this because it establishes, definitively, that such a thing is possible.
But in Windows 10 this option is not available anymore. Why? Because fuck you, that's why. Because a lot of their customers want it, and Microsoft has to show them who's the boss. Why do you think that they removed the option to control the background color of application windows? Because fuck you, that's why.
Enter 7+ Taskbar Tweaker. It lets you get back this basic functionality, and in addition does some other nice stuff for the taskbar (I use my television as a monitor, so I like the large icons option). Go take a look at the software.
Of course, in passing it also proves, yet again, that it is in fact possible to have your taskbar behave this way. Microsoft, why are the "autohide" and "stay on top" options not independent, as they used to be? It's clearly possible, and making them independent would take away nothing; users would simply have the option of having the taskbar behave the way they want.
Microsoft: Because fuck you, that's why.
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