How to Fix the Windows Taskbar When It Refuses to Auto-Hide Correctly

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Highlight Bar) is a highlighted area/region indicating the part of a menu that has been chosen to click on in order to activate a particular feature. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. From Lightsabers to Proton Packs: Inside the Deeply Nerdy—and Insanely Expensive—World of Hollywood Prop Collecting "Previous generations bought Renoirs and Cézannes," Dan Lanigan says. "We're buying stormtrooper helmets and Ghostbusters proton packs." [Wired] Inside NASA's daring $8 billion plan to finally find extraterrestrial life A congressman, a billionaire movie director, and an unparalleled mission of discovery. [ArsTechnica] IBM has figured out how to store data and information on a single atom IBM envisions a future where the entire iTunes catalog would fit on a storage device the size of a credit card. [Quartz] The International Space Station May Soon Host the Coolest Place in the Universe The station's Cold Atom Laboratory will reach temperatures just a billionth of a degree above absolute zero [Scientific American] How to Route All Audio Through the PlayStation 4 DualShock Controller There comes a time in every person’s life when they just need to play a game without disturbing someone else. But who wants to mute the game, losing potentially crucial details? Many modern games rely almost as heavily on audio as video at this point, so muting really isn’t an option. The good news is that there’s a way to send all audio to the PlayStation’s DualShock controller with headphones attached. Read This Article → What to Do If You’ve Lost an Instruction Manual The odds are you've lost some instruction manuals over the years. Maybe they’re lying in a drawer somewhere or long ago ended up in a recycling bin. Fortunately, you don’t need to send in for a replacement—many of those manuals are available online. You just have to find them. Read This Article → How to Fix the Windows Taskbar When It Refuses to Auto-Hide Correctly Auto-hiding the taskbar can be a great way to add a little extra space to your desktop. But occasionally, it can stubbornly refuse to hide when it’s supposed to. Here are a few tips that might get that Taskbar hidden again. Read This Article → Will Using a Network Switch Slow My Internet Down? You pay good money for your speedy broadband connection, and it would be a shame if a poor hardware choice was hampering your network. Are network switches to blame for your slow connection? Read This Article → How to Make Windows Show File Extensions Windows doesn’t show file extensions by default, but you can change a single setting and make Windows 7, 8, or 10 always show you each file’s full file extension. Read This Article → How to Locate Your Lost Phone with the Amazon Echo It's all too easy to lose your phone around the house, especially if you're prone to losing things in general. However, your Amazon Echo can help you find it using some neat third-party services. Read This Article → How to Sync Your Mac and Windows Desktops It’s one of the great new features of macOS: your desktop syncs from one Mac to another using iCloud. Put a file on the desktop of your iMac, and it’s there waiting for you on your MacBook. It’s like magic. Read This Article → How to Save Money with the Walmart App’s Savings Catcher Walmart has billed itself as the low-price leader, and they are usually hard to beat…but they don’t always have the lowest prices. Using the Walmart app is a great way to “catch” them when they don’t. Read This Article → How to Delete an Email Address from the Auto-Complete List in Outlook for Windows Outlook remembers every email address you've typed into email messages. These email addresses become part of the auto-complete list and matching items from that list are suggested as you type in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields. Read This Article → How to Set Up and Use Google Daydream View with Your Android Phone Mobile virtual reality is the new hotness out right now—phones that users can strap into headsets and get a real, genuine VR experience are a great way to see what VR’s all about without the huge price tag. And when it comes down to it, Google nailed it with Daydream View. Read This Article → What Is Autofocus, and What Do the Different Modes Mean? Modern technology has made photography a lot more accessible. In the early days, photographers had to painstakingly focus their lens by hand before they took a photo. If they missed focus, the image (and the expensive film they were using) would go to waste. Now, almost all cameras, from your smartphone to a high-end DSLR, use autofocus to make it easier to get sharp shots. Read This Article → How to Get HD TV Channels for Free (Without Paying for Cable) Remember TV antennas? Well, they still exist. A digital TV antenna allows you to watch local TV stations for free, all without paying a dime to a cable provider. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Linux Command Line Cheat Sheet Did you know that there are literally hundreds of Linux commands? Even on a bare-bones Linux server install there are easily over 1,000 different commands. The interesting thing is that most people only need to use a very small subset of those commands. I like to pride myself on my command line prowess, but there are really only about a hundred commands that I ever use and even fewer that I use on a daily basis.Click here to download