Feature suggestion: fix sticky taskbar bug when using auto-hide options

Since 7TT has so many options that fix Microsoft's shortcomings or problems, I thought you might be interested in correcting one bug that has marred Windows versions at least since XP. The issue has been known for a while now, but since I guess very few of us like to keep the taskbar on auto-hide, MS always forgot or didn't bother to address it properly. As of this time I've never tried Win8, so it might actually be fixed in that OS. I am here talking exclusively about Win7.
Here's how the bug presents itself: one needs to have the taskbar set to auto-hide (Right click > Properties > Auto-hide the taskbar). This means that the taskbar will only show up when the mouse is near the edge of the screen where the taskbar is located. There are some applications that populate the systray that ask Windows to display a message bubble, but never actually do so for some reason. The auto-hide options forces the taskbar to be visible when the systray wants to display a bubble, and only allows it to be hide again when that bubble has been acknowleged by the user. Since the aforementioned applications never actually display a bubble the taskbar is stuck in its visible state, and the only way to reset it is to terminate and restart explorer.exe (supposed enabling/disabling of the auto-hide feature as a fix seems to fail to work for most people, me included).
Unfortunately I don't have the name of any program that causes this problem, at the moment. I know for certain that an old version of the gog.com downloader did this, but with more recent ones it has been fixed. It can happen with so many that anyone who's used the auto-hide feature for a decent amount of time has probably had this happen at least once.

A quick googling of "auto-hide taskbar stuck" will show several records of this problem and no real solution found. I thought this would be a great addition to an already excellent piece of software, if it were possible to fix it permanently.