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I have 2 monitors, and I want to keep my full taskbar persistently-visible on both of them. This was working fine until about a week ago. Now, it behaves as though "Main taskbar and taskbar where window is open" is selected even though "All taskbars" is still selected, until I toggle the setting myself.
My workaround is manually setting it to "Main taskbar and taskbar where window is open," then back to "All taskbars." This fixes the issue until the next time my PC sleeps.
I have tried resetting my PC and I have tried SFC /scannow as an admin in case of settings file corruption. Neither have resolved the issue.
Taskbar Settings
Lock the taskbar | ON
Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode | OFF
Automatically hide the taskbar in tablet mode | OFF
Use small taskbar buttons | OFF
Use Peek to preview the desktop when you move your mouse to the Show desktop button at the end of the taskbar | OFF
Replace Command Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the menu when I right-click the start button or press Windows key+X | ON
Show badges on taskbar buttons | ON
Taskbar location on screen | Bottom
Combine taskbar buttons | Always, hide labels
MULTIPLE DISPLAYS
Show taskbar on all displays | ON
Show taskbar buttons on | All taskbars
Combine buttons on other taskbars | Always, hide labels
Device
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.60 GHz
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Windows
Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 22H2
Installed on 8/11/2020
OS build 19045.4780
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19060.1000.0
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I forgot to mention this, but my News and Interests has been active this whole time. I did try turning it off and on as well, but it still doesn't work properly.
I changed my cable for my main monitor from HDMI to Displayport to just a standard Displayport cable and the issue seems to have resolved. Edit: No it hasn't.
For me (and others), turning back on the News and Interest button in the taskbar solved this.
Same thing for me, any time computer goes into sleep mode the system thinks it is set to "Show taskbar buttons on> Main taskbar and taskbar where window is open" when it is actually set to "Show taskbar buttons on> All taskbars". I have to switch the setting to something different, then back to All taskbars for it to actually work. Extremely annoying. Started happening when I bought and set up a new monitor as my main display of a different resolution than my previous/2nd display.
Additionally, the first time I encountered this issue, my main display's icons on the taskbar were expanded to show their program names/titles (i.e. Chrome would show the name of the tab open in the taskbar). I fixed this and it hasn't happened again since, but the Show taskbar buttons issue has been consistent whenever entering sleep mode.
I can confirm this bug as well, button and short cut keep reseting on 2nd display after reboot or wake up from sleep mode, this bug happens after windows update. Microsoft want to force you to enable news and interest to farm your privacy data.
I have this issue. It is clearly a bug since adjusting the taskbar settings to show taskbar buttons on All taskbars (the option I already have selected) fixes the issue until the next time I restart or put my computer to sleep.
So your options for a fix are to right click the task bar and reset the settings (edit: or enable the news widget I guess, that's a no from me), or do what I do and use a .bat script to restart explorer.exe:
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
exit
Put that code into a text file, change the file extension to .bat and you can run it and it temporarily fixes the issue, with some obviously bad side effects, primarily being that any open file explorer windows will be closed. For my purposes, it fixes the issue quickly, without needing to go into the settings menu.
