If you had this it wouldn't matter if you had the taskbar visible or not normally. It would still drive you nuts. It's the flashing yellow that demands that you click on it that truly is frustrating. And there's no reason. I'm going to keep looking for way's to disable it but I found a freeware program that should help - it's called taskbar eliminator. I'll try playing tonight and hopefully will have a more enjoyable experience =). I'd really not have to use a 3rd party program to force it to hide because I like being able to mouse over the task bar to make it show up again but oh well.

Other than this terrible issue I'm having with the task bar, Win7 is working great. It's so much faster than Vista (at least for me) and in Wow it shows. I finally got frame rates of over 250 for the 1st time. In vista I think I maxed out at 40-50 or so. The whole thing just runs so much smoother it's pretty amazing. I wish I took the plunge earlier.