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
    2022-11-06T18:12:09+00:00

    After latest update on Windows 11 on laptop, single screen same is happening to me?

    After restart etc autohide is gone, I have to restart explorer to get it working??

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-11-04T01:41:57+00:00

    This is the most miserable support thread I have ever had the misfortune of stumbling upon. I'm unhappy to report that I also experience this issue on current patch as of 11/3/2022 on Windows 11, and, yes, it's reliably triggered by waking from sleep on my dual monitors. Clearly the hundreds of responses about this exact issue have not had much luck in permeating to the folks who actually fix these things.

    At least they host this forum for us to shout into the void...

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-11-03T13:18:31+00:00

    The only thing about this thread that gives me any satisfaction is that this I'm not alone. Having lived with MS for decades, I'm quite confident this will not get fixed for a long while, if ever. No biggie. At least it's not my new computer. Just another MS annoyance.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-27T22:00:53+00:00

    Same exact problem I'm having.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-10-24T19:45:01+00:00

    I'm having the same problem - I also have dual monitors. Automatically hide taskbar keeps failing after sleep. Pops up an error message. Please update Windows 11.

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