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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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Just like the other users on this chain, I am having the same problem, and for me it also seems to be connected to using a dual monitor setup. I would love an update on this bug so that I don't have to turn the "automatically hide taskbar" setting on multiple times a day.
Same problem, auto-hide turning off by itself, please respond.
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Hi James and all, some improvements with auto-hide are live in 22000.469 optional update. Have you tried installing it?
January 25, 2022—KB5008353 (OS Build 22000.469) Preview (microsoft.com)
Hi Sumit,
thanks for your reply. I assume that the update has been installed on my system as my OS build says 22000.469 and the optional updates section in the system preferences tells me that there are no further optional updates available.
But the issue remains the same. I can enable Auto-hide on my main display but each time i reboot windows the feature is disabled again. In my case the windows main display is on monitor 2 (the number given by the graphics card automatically) and monitor 1 (by graphics card hardware count) is my windows secondary screen. Maybe this infacts the issue as well? Although this has never been an issue in Windows 10 maybe Windows 11 relies more on the hardware side given numbering of the displays? Unfortunately in my casa i cannot change the wiring because i only have one DP on my graphics card and the rest hdmi and i need the DP to serve my windows secondary display.
Maybe these information help to find a solution or at least give other people with the same issue an idea for a workaround.
Best regards
Juergen
