I use Rocket Dock on every PC. On small laptops keeping it visible is not an option and auto hide and revealing with mouse pointer is a pain.
Hot Keys for show/hide are Ctl + Alt +R. Turn off autohide.
The hot keys can be changed in the .ini file.
After the mess I made in previous posts this summary might be useful. Thanks PatchMyPC, the great and powerful program downloader and up...