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
    2022-03-05T01:02:17+00:00

    I seem to have found a temporary fix :

    I changed the power settings so the monitors never go to sleep and I turn the monitors off when I stop working.

    I've done this for three nights now and the task bar still hides and hasn't frozen requiring a restart.

    BUT I would still like to see a real fix.

    ... the next day :

    The reason I shut off the monitors is so the glare doesn't disturb the dogs who sleep in the same room overnight. I've left the monitors on all day today and things are OK still. So Microsoft, how about working on this a bit more !?

    Don

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-07T15:56:05+00:00

    I have the same problem, even if I don't restart the PC, the Autohide setting is cancelled, so far I couldn't find the trigger which causes it

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-07T21:44:11+00:00

    I too have the same problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-07T22:29:33+00:00

    I have posted about this before. But I have noticed a pattern.

    I often get a message "A toolbar is already hidden on this side of the screen." It goes on to state that you can only have one hidden toolbar per side! These messages are in a dialog box the locks the whole UI. So I cannot take a screen shot.

    This often appears when I access my computer when it has the screen saver running (black screen). After this message, the auto-hide task bar setting has been turned off.

    This seems quite bizarre. I do not have any special or extra toolbars. Just those that come with standard windows 11.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-08T02:34:18+00:00

    I also have the same issue.

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