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Ya I have to set it manually. Never really worried about it, but as a side note I frequently use Desktop X either with or instead of OD, so maybe it is related. Might be interesting to learn if it works as expected for people who don't use DTX.

It doesn't particularly bother me, just wanted to let you know that it's not just you.


Added trivia: As I play with this it looks like "Automatic distance" sets the bottom of the icons against the edge of screen, not the bottom of the dock against the edge of the screen. May be useful trivia. Again though, no biggie to me.

Hey Pic; had you changed to a different background. If background, as some of mine do, have an outsideborder set to place icons in from edge of background, that is where it will sit on taskbar when auto distance is set, thus chopping off some of the background. This is true for any screen edge it is on.

Take a look at the preview pic of my Silver and Glass 2 dock, the bottom 2 docks are the zoomer, one with auto distance set and the bottom one manually moved to screen edge. The same will hold true above taskbar, at the taskbar edge.

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Thanks for the feedback, guys

Automatic distance is setting the bottom edge of the icons to the edge of the screen instead of to the top edge of my taskbar; which is what it used to do. I even tried different dock backgrounds, including the default background.
Here's a image of the two states.

The top is with Automatic distance enabled. The bottom is with the dock manually moved to the top edge of the taskbar.

Hey Pic, have you tried a good old uninstall reinstall.

Pictoratus -

What you're getting is more extreme than what I get. Mine does allow for the taskbar, so the icons would be sitting just above the taskbar with the bottom edge of the dock background buried behind it, instead of a third of the icon height buried. Ya it looks like yours isn't allowing for the taskbar at all.

I'm guessing that will be my next step ...  

Hey Pic, if you have not done this yet, just a shot in the dark. Maybe Windows has lost track of taskbar, try setting it to auto hide and then back to normal, maybe toggle between locked and unlocked, drag it 3 or 4 rows high then back to single.

Toggling autohide seems to have done the trick! Thanks!   

No problem Pic: Every now and then Windows just needs a kick in the pants to remember how it should work.

  

Too funny   

Mental image of person thumping on machine "Hello, anybody in there?"

  

ya, something like that.