Window 11 taskbar auto-hide turning off

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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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Anonymous

2025-04-26T11:36:31+00:00

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Anonymous

2025-04-25T21:53:45+00:00

With all of the AI development and that they are so heavily involved in it, one would think that they could have AI run the code and find out what is causing this issue that they cannot seem to resolve.
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Anonymous

2025-04-25T14:29:51+00:00

It's almost as if Microsoft and its business "partners" (PC sellers) are too busy trying to force everyone to buy new hardware -- and trying to force AI into everything so they can monetize it -- to fix real, very basic, and extremely annoying problems in their existing products.

Here is some blatant sarcasm...

Taskbar Auto-Hide turning itself off? So what?

Desktop Icons randomly moving themselves around? Who cares?

File chooser not automatically selecting the same folder you've used the last 500 times? We couldn't care less.

UAC popping up underneath open windows so you can't see it. One day you'll move a window and maybe you'll see it.

I can no longer allow my monitors to go to sleep. My desktop is ALWAYS completely mangled when they wake up. Resolutions are wrong. Window are re-arranged. And icons?

The list goes on.

But Co-Pilot in EVERYTHING? Yeah, that's what everyone wants. And they want to pay huge $$ for new hardware in order to use it.

Yeah, make is so you must buy new hardware in order to get fixes to your OS. We want -- no, WE NEED -- that.

Hey, here's a thought. FIX YOUR EXISTING SOFTWARE!!!

If Linux weren't such a pain in the butt to maintain, almost all of the apps I use every day are open-source and/or available there...
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Anonymous

2025-04-25T13:29:45+00:00

My taskbar's autohide settings fail and my Desktop icons get rearranged after Windows 11 (24H2) is put to sleep. I get the following error:

A toolbar is already hidden on this side of your screen.
You can have only one auto-hide toolbar per side.

It's no solution, just a workaround, but I've created a Batch file (.BAT):

@echo offpowershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "& {$p='HKCU:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3';$v=(Get-ItemProperty -Path $p).Settings;$v[8]=3;Set-ItemProperty -Path $p -Name Settings -Value $v;Stop-Process -f -ProcessName explorer}"

and then made a shortcut. If you put 'explorer' under Target (Startpage.com for detailed info) it's possible to add this shortcut to the Taskbar. I only have to click it and Taskbar will be set to autohide again and my Desktop icons are back where they were.
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Anonymous

2025-04-25T12:55:14+00:00

Still doesn't work. This thread is a good example of how terrible Microsoft support is.
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