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
    2022-03-25T16:29:07+00:00

    Update 3/25 - Upon waking the comp both were showing the taskbar with the dialog box. Logging off/on didn't help. Set Taskbar to not show on all displays (counterproductive) and auto-hide.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-19T16:14:15+00:00

    This same thing just happened to me. Searching for a solution keeps yielding zero results :(

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-11T14:25:43+00:00

    My PC had Win 8, which Microsoft upgraded to Win 10. I then ran Win 10, with no taskbar auto-hide issues from it's 1st version through the last, before the Win 11 upgrade was offered. Then, and only then, in Win 11, I started having issues with the taskbar auto-hide setting reverting to "off" automatically. Now that I reverted to Win 10, I have no taskbar auto-hide issues! The switch from Win 11 to Win 10 was painless & quick!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-10T16:14:35+00:00

    that fix worked for me, my task bar stays hidden now in dual monitor mode after i restarted windows explorer

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-08T08:26:21+00:00

    Note that this also occurs on Win10 - so dont do that to solve the problem. It wont

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