Window 11 taskbar auto-hide turning off

this will probably fix the issue as well, just reverse the reg setting to 03 to force it on and restart, the problem i had was pretty much the same but in reverse where it was enabling it for me even after unchecking it.

It doesn't.

For months (over a year?) I've been reading almost everything Google and Brave Search can find on this issue, and nothing has worked. I've even seen and used your exact suggestion before.

Auto-hide works for a while, regardless of how I enable it, then something just flat-our turns it OFF. I look in the GUI or the Registry, and they show that it's NOT enabled anymore.

That's what most of this thread is about.

I think (almost) everybody here KNOWS how to ENABLE auto-hide.

But no one knows what is DISABLING it and how to prevent that.

Some things I have read seem to relate this issue with a multi-monitor setup. (I use three monitors.) There is another issue that *seems* to be related. When your monitors have been put to sleep, and you come back to your system, you get a strange error message saying something about a toolbar already being enabled. I'm sure if you look back through this thread you may find mention of it. (Since my work-around discussed below, I don't get this anymore, either, so I don't remember the exact message)

In addition, since I got the latest update to 24H2, when the system wakes my monitors up, the resolutions are wrong, even though they are correct in the settings. This of course completely messes up my desktop. I have had to change it so my system no longer puts my monitors to sleep.

But since I installed the version of Explorer Patcher that was released as a response to Windows 11 24H2 and I starting using it's (new) replacement for the Taskbar, taskbar auto-hide STAYS enabled.

I really don't know why this issue bothers me (and others) so much. Maybe because it destroys my work-flow? Maybe it's my software development background and my need to solve problems? Maybe it's because it's such a stupid little issue that should be easy to fix? Maybe it's because MS has so far completely failed to even acknowledge the problem -- let-alone fix it -- update after update after update?

MS has to spend $$$millions on things I just don't want or even care about (Co-Pilot, Recall, etc) instead of actually taking what they already have and making it WORK!!!

I realise I'm replying to an answer given back in January, and I'm sure you're fully aware that this is not a 'fix' but instructions on how to do this in a fully working program.

I appeared here earlier on to say that hide the toolbar keeps switching off, so the toolbar doesn't hide. I have tried some fixes given here (not the coding one because I truly don't want to break anything else!)

After having experienced a half-full toolbar (ie icons missing) and toolbar stuck open so I couldn't remove it or otherwise stuck closed so I had to click windows key to reawaken, I decided to explore changing the setting in safe mode, as someone had deemed it a roaring success. Sadly, not so me. I've started the thing in safe mode, changed the settings, restarted, and guess what? - toobar setting is still on 'hide the taskbar', but when I hid it, it refused to come back without the windows key. So nothing's changed. Except it's worse. It still refuses to hide, yet when it does hide it seems permanently stuck in hide without the windows key.

Come on, Microsoft. It's been 4 long months now! Why did you tell me to take this devastating step? My win10 toolbar was almost perfect. It hid when not needed, I could miniaturise it, and if I really needed it out of the way, I could throw it to another side of the computer screen. If you were going to make drastic changes to the toolbar behaviour, you should have ensured it worked before foisting it onto your unsuspecting public. Any news about when this disaster is going to be put right, or should I simply rewind to windows 10 and have done with it? It's unbelievable how much time and frustration this has cost me in the last 4 months.

Although not ideal I have turned off the option for 'Show task bar on all displays' (bit irritating but not a massive loss), and I now don't suffer from the autohide turning off.

I think you misunderstood the problem, we don't to turn auto-hide off, we want it to stay on, its turning off by itself in dual monitor mode

I've also been having this message. Well done on finding a smoking gun. Hopefully MS can do their job and find out what the root cause is.

Not stopping me doing my work, but frustrating all the same