This how-to article will show you the ways of both keeping and hiding your taskbar in Windows. There are a few users reporting that after Windows 10 update, the taskbar always shows up on top of all program windows and they are wondering how to disable that, while other users might be curious about how to keep the taskbar always on top in their Windows 7/8 and even Windows 10. Whether to keep the taskbar always on the top or hide it depends on your needs. But sometimes we may want to hide it for full-screen play or just for larger screen space. Taskbar can be quite convenient for us to launch applications whenever we need.