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
    2025-06-23T22:55:18+00:00

    I agree. Also, I see numerous posts saying this appears to be related to having multiple monitors. I don't disagree with this, but will add, it happens almost every time I access a system with remote desktop connection (which I use a lot).

    Apparently, the "multiple display issue" isn't limited to having 2 physical monitors connected to the system....

    Having been someone who has developed operating systems, compilers, communications systems, etc., I wouldn't think this should have been going on for YEARS?

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-06-24T17:41:55+00:00

    I have reported before that in my experience, this was not solely related to multiple monitors. I cannot give an up-to-date report on this because my separate laptop hasn't been used regularly for some time, but there was a point when that one was the one that gave the trouble, whereas my dual monitor setup seemed to work without a problem for a while. Unfortunately that is no longer the case, but I've just stopped worrying because after all this time I know that Microsoft aren't listening.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-07-02T00:51:08+00:00

    I apologize in advance if I'm repeating what another user in this 42 page thread has already said but I do get the same issue with the auto-hide feature turning itself off. When coming back from sleep I usually get a popup saying something roughly translating to: the auto-hide feature was turned off because there was no taskbar found to apply it on.

    In my case, I suspect this issue may have something to do with my DisplayPort monitors natively go into deep sleep mode when the computer goes to sleep. Deep sleep makes the monitors go completely undetected. As such, whenever Windows goes to sleep, I imagine it momentarily cannot find any display device installed and destroys its user interface including those taskbars that are supposed to be getting hidden. I think it may be something along those lines that turns the setting off over and over.

    In any case, the fact that an accurate pop-up message is shown to me when the issue occurs means that some error or event was caught that could have been used to reactivate auto-hide in the background instead.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-07-02T05:39:46+00:00

    2025 and still the same problem

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-07-03T06:44:39+00:00

    Use this command if it dosent work REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" /v TaskbarAutoHide /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f then reboot

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