After ten years of using Windows (Win95 through XP), I'm trying to see
if I like hiding the taskbar. One thing that hits me right away is the
lack of information when it's not visible.

I like to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as possible, so I was
wondering if there is a keyboard command to pop (momentarily unhide)
the Taskbar +without+ opening the Start menu, like the WinKey does.

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Jeffrey Kaplan <msxp@gordol.org> wrote in
news:24r4o1hp6rkbdj8jscprte6lv4gvqg6ggu@gordol.org :

> After ten years of using Windows (Win95 through XP), I'm trying to see
> if I like hiding the taskbar. One thing that hits me right away is the
> lack of information when it's not visible.
>
> I like to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as possible, so I was
> wondering if there is a keyboard command to pop (momentarily unhide)
> the Taskbar +without+ opening the Start menu, like the WinKey does.

I have the taskbar at the top of the screen and set to auto-hide. Alt-tab
can get you to applications without the need of the taskbar.

Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> After ten years of using Windows (Win95 through XP), I'm trying to see
> if I like hiding the taskbar. One thing that hits me right away is the
> lack of information when it's not visible.
>
> I like to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as possible, so I was
> wondering if there is a keyboard command to pop (momentarily unhide)
> the Taskbar +without+ opening the Start menu, like the WinKey does.
>

Try Win+B. It seems to work on my system.

It is alleged that Fuzzy Logic claimed:

> Jeffrey Kaplan <msxp@gordol.org> wrote in
> news:24r4o1hp6rkbdj8jscprte6lv4gvqg6ggu@gordol.org :
>
> > After ten years of using Windows (Win95 through XP), I'm trying to see
> > if I like hiding the taskbar. One thing that hits me right away is the
> > lack of information when it's not visible.
> >
> > I like to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as possible, so I was
> > wondering if there is a keyboard command to pop (momentarily unhide)
> > the Taskbar +without+ opening the Start menu, like the WinKey does.
>
> I have the taskbar at the top of the screen and set to auto-hide. Alt-tab
> can get you to applications without the need of the taskbar.

But that doesn't pop the bar to show me info on it. Like the clock,
status icons in the systray, etc.

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