
I do love the direction that the current UI is going (I also run fbsd w/kde systems). a couple of the servers are running with the Aero desktop and I am quite impressed with all (I had only run one RC of 7 for a short time before, I was waiting for RTM to really build out). On other items, I am running a couple different Windows 7 systems and several Windows 2008 R2 (Server 7) systems. True the Auto-hide feature is a way of using the full screen, but most times it is slow to respond when having many active application windows open and/or switching between those windows. Auto-hide just doesn't provide the functionallity that I am use to with the Windows UI. Thanks for the response Dale, Please feel free to forward any information to the powers that be :) Thanks for your suggestion of using Auto-hide, but I have tried using that many times in the past (in fact that is my fathers default way to use it, he is a Office power user).

Please O great and wonderful MSFT Devs, please hear my prayers and return the "keep taskbar on top of other windows" option, in future hotfixes and/or patches, I promise not to _ and moan about simple things again, Amen/Awomen (we have to be equal nowdays, Devs are both) Thanks I really feel that this is a reduction of my resources and limits my capabilities. Think of it this way I am being denied using the complete/entire desktop for the window of my choice, the taskbar is always there on the screen now and limits my use of the complete/entire desktop. I have never had any issue with finding the taskbar when needed (some have said that this change was to keep people from losing the taskbar behind other windows). BTW I am a System Engineer and spend a greater part of the day staring at computer displays. Think of it as a Ergo style, using the taskbar at the top (I don't get a sore neck anymore), anyway one of the settings I have always used was to "uncheck" the "keep taskbar on top of other windows" option, this allowed great flexibility with the windows I use during the day. I have used my taskbar at the top of the screen for many years (after years of using it at the bottom of the screen and getting a sore neck after many hours of use looking down at the TB). This is a "feature" that needs to be available in Windows 7.

But they get over written each time I try. I have tried the only steps that I could find to restore the "keep taskbar on top of other windows" option, in Windows 7 RTM.
