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In article <4iocaj$lij@guysmiley.blarg.net>, warrl@blarg.net says...
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>bmitchel@atcon.com (Blair Mitchell) wrote:
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>>Why edit the registry for this? All you have to do is right click on an 
empty spot on the task bar,
>>choose properties and check "Auto hide".
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>Well, thanks for your help.  Now, having explained this, please do it
>for the other 899 machines.
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>

Let's see if I've got this straight: your nine hundred users aren't bright 
enough to follow very simple instructions, so you hope to avoid confusion and 
the attending hundreds of calls for help by auto-hiding their taskbars for 
them.  

Surely these users are going to notice that their taskbars have disappeared! 
How do you plan to explain this phenomenon to them in a way that won't lead to 
the aforementioned confusion and its attending hundreds of calls for help?

You intend to hide but not delete, their taskbars, so I assume that your users 
need access to their taskbars at least occasionally.
 
How are you going to instruct these users on how to make their taskbars 
reappear when needed, if these same users aren't bright enough to be able to 
hide them in the first place?

Canada, at the end of WWII, adopted hundreds of thousands of displaced persons 
as immigrants. Most could not understand English.  The government set up free 
evening classes all over the country to help them learn the language.  Part of 
this effort involved developing a minimal set vocabulary known as "Basic 
English".

Print up instructions written in Basic English, complete with drawings and/or 
pictures if necessary, giving the details of invoking Auto Hide.  Test and 
retest your cards on several of your least-bright users till you've gotten the 
cards so that they're foolproof (literally), then distribute them.


Anthony J. McNamara, PhD

        The road to OTHER PEOPLE's hell is all-too-often 
        paved with YOUR good intentions!