Temporarily disable taskbar autohide

Nothing is more annoying then connecting to a users computer and they have their windows taskbar set to autohide, (can be annoying on Mac launcher too). Sometimes the mouse thinks i've left the SC window instead just trying to bring up the task bar. I can hit the windows buttion, but on windows 8 machines that brings up metro, sometimes I just want to access the clock or an icon in the system tray.

If there was a way to turn off auto hide while an agent is connected to the machine that would be awesome!