"Show taskbar buttons on: All Taskbars" setting keeps resetting on sleep

Anonymous
2024-09-10T17:18:21+00:00

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

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Settings

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-24T12:49:29+00:00

    Still broken as of KB5045594 on 10/22/24.

    Can consistently replicate issue by disconnecting displayport monitor and plugging it back in.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-24T23:34:31+00:00

    I have the same issue, it's been driving me insane for the past week or so...

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-01T14:23:59+00:00

    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.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-08T13:53:55+00:00

    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.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-10T15:30:02+00:00

    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.

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