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
    2025-01-06T21:04:20+00:00

    It shouldn't be hard at all. Just change the programming to stop allowing Windows to override user specified settings - ever.

    Of course, they are unlikely to ever give up that power... :D

    Honestly, the checkbox should have another state. NEVER show the task bar unless I hit the Windows button. Ever. It messes up so many things on your desktop, hides crucial application buttons, etc. I'd much rather have to intentionally hit the Windoze button to bring it up than EVER see that nuisance bar when I don't want it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-06T19:58:21+00:00

    Same problem, only mine is in Windows 10. It has been going on for some time now. I do have a multi monitor setup but my laptop never goes to sleep, I have that disabled.

    I often wonder why we bother reporting things. Like so many other MS bugs, this has been going on for years and clearly MS doesn't give a damn. At the end of the day they still get their billions of dollars.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-06T19:26:18+00:00

    I am having the same issue. Every time I select auto-hide in the settings, it suddenly re-enables itself after coming out of sleep. I understand that this is an intermittent problem and it is hard to debug, but I think that Microsoft should make a bigger effort to fix it. Especially considering that we are talking about a feature that has been available since Windows 95. We are now in 2025!

    Why is this a problem for me? Because this issue causes my OLED display to risk a burned-in taskbar.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-04T15:48:28+00:00

    Sadly for us NO!

    They're most likely not interested in how this problem affects all of us, & moving on to developing their next OS.

    They should care more about current customers, because the future is never guaranteed!

    Just for this reason, I'll look for another OS for my next PC. I'm retired & I'm not forced to run the software I used for work, which, as far as I understand, only works on Windows.

    Sidebar: does anyone know if AutoCAD, SolidWorks, inventor, &/or Revit work on Linux, or another OS, except iOS?

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-04T10:08:38+00:00

    Will Microsoft fix this bug this year? All bets are on!

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