Interestingly - I think in RC1 - you could auto hide the sidebar, but in subsequent
releases, they removed it. Not sure why.



"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message news:eK5uJ$aTHHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> "Magnu" <Magnu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
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>> I'd like to be able to move my mouse to the right of the desktop and get the
>> sidebar to come out, and then hide again when I remove the mouse. I can close
>> the sidebar and re-open it from the icon by the clock. However, there doesn't
>> seem to be any way to auto-hide the sidebar like you can the taskbar. Looking
>> in help under "Customizing Windows Sidebar" it says you can "hide" the
>> sidebar. But outside of closing it and reopening it via the icon, or simply
>> covering it with a full screen window, I don't see any way to really hide it.[/color]
>
> No, there is no auto-hide feature for the sidebar.
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> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell][/color]