Full screen windows 7 taskbar bug

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December 19, 2011
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Since the recent install of Flash Player 11 (v11,1,102,55) there was irritating problem on the laptop of my wife. When YouTube flash video were put in full screen the Windows 7 taskbar would remain visible.

The laptop screen is 1920 x 1200 so standard the DPI setting of the display is put to 150. If I would put the DPI to the standard setting the taskbar will disappear with full screen video but then everything is too small in windows. At first I did not release it could a problem with the Flash Player but when I did come to that conclusion I had to apply the following to the plugin-container program which is situated in the webbrowser install folder. In this case Mozilla Firefox.

After selecting the properties of plugin-container I went to the compatibility tab and put a flag in the option "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings". This basically solved the annoying problem but frankly such a sloppy fault in a commonly used program like Flash Player should not be there. I advise Adobe to correct this in the next version. There are quite a lot people these days who have laptops with HD resolution so fix it!

In the mean time I hope this will be of help to people who have a similar problem.

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123abczut

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Hi,

I got approx same problem around task bar position VS flash over or not.

I tried your solution and around ... and finally founded that the problem was :

- the FireFox Font Size wasn't set to 100% !!!!!!

I switched it back to 100% and now the taskbar is at the standard position.

cheers

T

The Green Monkie

Participant

Oh thank God. I've been struggling with this very issue for months with my task bar obscuring Flash video in full-screen, which really sucks since that's where the video controls are.

I knew it was the DPI setting and I'm absolutely flabbergasted that Adobe hasn't accounted for this on a piece of software that is pretty much essential to using the internet and when most people are using HD displays.

After reading this fix, I immediately browsed to C:\Program Files(x86)\Mozilla Firefox and right clicked Properties on the plugin-container application. Right there on the Compatibility tab is the option Disable scaling on high DPI settings. Checked the box and imediatly full-screened the first flash video I could find. Problem solved, didn't even have to reboot the browser.

BarrieBar, I salute you. Never would have found this without your post.

Thanks.