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
    2023-03-16T08:55:26+00:00

    You could spell out the problem & your fix!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-25T04:16:11+00:00

    Annoying feature with no control guys. In my situation, my autohide option is already disabled, however the taskbar just auto hides every time.

    1. Tried restarting
    2. Tried checking, then unchecking and restarting

    Please fix the bug!

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-25T22:03:28+00:00

    The only non system restart method I know of is to use task manager and close windows explorer then use the run function and execute explorer.exe which will restart the taskbar and rehide until the next time you let the system sleep the screens and then it starts all over again.

    MS has proven they don't care considering how long this bug has been allowed to exist.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-25T22:33:10+00:00

    Yes, they apparently don't care! Should be a simple fix via update.

    I'm staying on win 10...

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-04-07T16:19:21+00:00

    After installing the display update my problems went away, but they're back now. Instead of waiting until Microsoft solves this problem I've search - and found - a shortcut to set the menu to automatically hide the taskbar again.

    It's all explained here: https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-hide-taskbar-shortcuts/

    I realize this isn't a solution, but it's more than MS has to offer atm...

    This is an excellent resource to put a band-aid on the issue, great find Bjørn.be. So, to those who are interested in this band-aid fix, something you can try is to create this shortcut that the guide linked above gives to hide the taskbar. Then once you've created this, open Task Scheduler and create a task to run this program when the computer is unlocked. This should make it so that when you log in, it will run and cause the autohide to activate. Like many of the solutions in the 22 pages of replies before me, this is a great temporary solution so it would still be nice to see Microsoft actually do something about this issue but in the meantime, I hope this helps.

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