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
    2022-12-01T22:06:13+00:00

    I have W11 on 2 computers, a Lenovo Notebook and a Dell PC with a second monitor. On both configurations the autohide issue has past away long ago, everything works fine. The autohide doesn't work, if on any of the open windows is a notification, appointements or new messages. Just confirm the notification and/or look at the window (f.e. Signal Desktop) and the autohide works fine again.

    I don't want to defend Microsoft for not resolving the issue (for god's sake!!!), but I can imagine, that it is quite difficult to find the mistake, as on many configuration it works, on others not. And I cannot imagine whether they have enough informations about each of the computers with or without the problems

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-12-01T21:49:15+00:00

    I have the same issue, I have a Dual Monitor Setup. One is a 3440x1440p running DisplayPort and the other is 2560x1080p running on HDMI. But I have 4K tv I swap to to play some games on, the same issue happens to me every once in awhile after unpluging the TV cable and pluging back in the monitors. I get an error that the taskbar is already hidden and the Taskbar Auto-Hide gets unchecked... then I have to go back into settings and turn it back on again. Not the end of the world but annoying

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-01T16:28:51+00:00

    In my case, updating to W11 fixed the problem. Go figure.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-11-28T20:01:26+00:00

    I have been having this same problem and no update seems to fix it.

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