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
    2022-04-01T07:37:10+00:00

    Just to note that I'm having the same problem. However, although I've had various problems with the taskbar refusing to hide, or refusing to reappear since installing win11, this issue seems to have appeared over the last few days. Now, periodically, I return to the computer to find that my setting, automatically hide task bar, has been unticked and the taskbar is permanently on. On reading the previous posts, I also realise that it probably coincides with the computers going into sleep. However, there is one major difference: I run two computers, one with a single monitor and one stand-alone. Both are having the same problemm so it's clearly not linked to the dual monitors. Each time I return, I have to re-tick the automatically hide taskbar setting. It is particularly annoying as, with win10, I had the icons set to small. Now this huge fixed taskbar that I can't move to the side out of the way when troublesome, is completely in the way when using various programs, such as word or excel, to name just 2 examples.

    As well as a solution to the current problem, I would like to know whether microsoft has any plans to replace the clumsy new taskbar with one that can be shrunk and moved as before.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-04-01T03:21:55+00:00

    Same problem as everyone else. Auto hide is deactivated after a shutdown or computer goes to sleep. Have a dual monitor setup as well.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-31T16:32:27+00:00

    Started having issues again with auto-hide on multiple monitors. Had to switch back to just one monitor for the taskbar.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-29T20:21:07+00:00

    I rec'd Intel SoftwareComponent 2127.1.10.0 and Intel System 2120.100.0.1085 on 3/28. Will monitor.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-29T18:59:23+00:00

    Which update did you get?

    Fairly certain it was this one "INTEL - System - 10.1.45.4" . It's the only one I can find that matches the date.

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