The only way I got it to go away was to limit the task bar to the main monitor. It's a pain to use it this way, but it mitigated (not solved) the issue with the task bar, and the task manager not closing.
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
2022-05-05T21:19:50+00:00 Wouldn't work for me. The dual-monitor system is currently (but not permanently, I suggest), behaving, while the single-monitor computer toolbar is either in permanent hiding or permanently on. Still waiting, Microsoft...
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Anonymous
2022-05-06T17:28:39+00:00 Same issue, dual monitor, auto hide taskbar disables after about ten minutes. Windows also overlay the taskbar, rendering it useless until i move the windows away. Somewhat annoying that one.
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Anonymous
2022-05-06T19:36:52+00:00 After all the complaints & bug reports, has anyone heard anything from MS on this?
After reverting to W10 in order to get the auto-hide functionality back, I'm not going to consider upgrading again to W11 until they announce they've fixed it.
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Anonymous
2022-05-06T21:21:44+00:00 Once again, I'm not sure about the 'dual monitor' thing. My dual monitor setup has now held the taskbar-hiding action for 3 days and 2 boot-ups, whereas down here on this machine the task bar is still permanently hidden unless I press the windows key. So for me it has nothing whatsoever to do with dual monitors.