Window 11 taskbar auto-hide turning off

Anonymous
2022-01-10T23:43:57+00:00

I switched to Windows 11 a few weeks ago, and ever since then, the taskbar auto-hide quits working when the computer comes out of Sleep mode. I have to be away from the computer for a while before it will happen, and I believe it has something to do with me running dual monitors. When I wake my computer, my secondary monitor appears to come up faster than my primary by just a fraction. Once my primary is on, there is a message saying something about the taskbar already being hidden (I think) and the taskbar on my primary monitor has the taskbar up. When I go to Taskbar Behaviors, 'Automatically hide the taskbar' is no longer checked. I'll select it again, and it will work fine until the system goes back into Sleep mode for a while, again.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-07-02T00:51:08+00:00

    I apologize in advance if I'm repeating what another user in this 42 page thread has already said but I do get the same issue with the auto-hide feature turning itself off. When coming back from sleep I usually get a popup saying something roughly translating to: the auto-hide feature was turned off because there was no taskbar found to apply it on.

    In my case, I suspect this issue may have something to do with my DisplayPort monitors natively go into deep sleep mode when the computer goes to sleep. Deep sleep makes the monitors go completely undetected. As such, whenever Windows goes to sleep, I imagine it momentarily cannot find any display device installed and destroys its user interface including those taskbars that are supposed to be getting hidden. I think it may be something along those lines that turns the setting off over and over.

    In any case, the fact that an accurate pop-up message is shown to me when the issue occurs means that some error or event was caught that could have been used to reactivate auto-hide in the background instead.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-17T03:40:56+00:00

    I have, once again, submitted this problem, that I am also experiencing, to Microsoft through their Feedback Hub.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-09T23:55:46+00:00

    I gave up! Reverted back to Win 10...

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-09T23:19:15+00:00

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-08T08:11:20+00:00

    Now that you mentioned it, I notice thr same behaviour but just didn't make the connection before.

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