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
    2025-03-20T17:43:12+00:00

    Hi Microsoft,

    Please fix this, it is now 3 years later and the auto hide function keeps disabling on the taskbar.
    I am seriously considering moving to Linux permanently at this point.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-24T02:00:11+00:00

    MS CAN SUCK IT!!! EFF WIN 11!!!
    I have issues with that, Phone Link, MS 365... Never, not once, have they responded to my feedback or support requests!
    Staying with Win 10 while waiting till Windows 12...

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-20T19:00:25+00:00

    Same problem, both on work laptop and sometimes home PC

    Triple monitor

    1. Samsung G80SD 4K 240hz (DP->USB C)
    2. 2x Viewsonic VG2440 1080p -> HDMI

    On the home PC these are using HDMI 2.1 and DP respectively

    Taskbar decides to turn itself back on seemingly at random

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-11T20:32:35+00:00

    Same issue. I will personally set the taskbar setting to checked for "Automatically hide the taskbar", ie, ENABLED.

    As Woof4Grrrr pointed out, this 'seems' to be related to a multi-monitor setup as I am running a secondary monitor alongside my laptop at work. I often have to disconnect the additional monitor at my desk and then connect to monitors in meeting rooms.

    The taskbar at some point in this moving around will unhide itself, forcing me to go back into the settings and enable it.

    I have not been able to consistently reproduce this issue, as it does not happen every time. But, I am very certain it is related to multi-monitors in some way.

    I have also seen the "toolbar already being enabled" type of message many times in the past year and also have to reset my monitor resolutions constantly.

    All these problems are directly attributable to Microsoft and lead to a loss in productivity with having to constantly stop and readjust configurations.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-27T02:34:04+00:00

    So 03 is for auto-hide?

    You seem to have had the opposite problem that we all have here!

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