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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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The only thing about this thread that gives me any satisfaction is that this I'm not alone. Having lived with MS for decades, I'm quite confident this will not get fixed for a long while, if ever. No biggie. At least it's not my new computer. Just another MS annoyance.
Curious whether MS are going to let this issue remain for a full year! As you state odd that they are removing features as well.
Does anyone know how to get MS to both formally acknowledge that this is a bug (or set of bugs) that they are addressing AND provide some kind of timeline for when it will get fixed?
I’ve been battling the same issue ever since switching from Win10 Pro to Win11 Pro and finally came across Squatch253’s post and I uninstalled Microsoft Teams in the apps window. Finally my taskbar stays hidden now after multiple resumes from sleep. Hopefully it will keep working this way. I have two monitors in addition to my main laptop monitor with one of them being a Dell super wide which is basically two 27’s side by side but one continuous monitor and another single Dell 27” next to it, then my main 17” Dell Precision 7760. In Windows 10 after a recent update upon waking from sleep all my open windows were randomly placed on different monitors and resized but never the same way. I tried everything to fix it reading all forums to no avail. I finally resorted to using an image I made back in December of 2021 after I installed all my programs and Win 10 Pro was back to working perfectly, but as soon as the updates hit everything went downhill again, so I switched to Win11 Pro and was introduced to the taskbar not staying hidden upon waking from sleep. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this has fixed the problem. Many thanks to Squatch253 with no help whatsoever from Microsoft.
I have the same issue in Win10.
When I turn off my primary DP connected monitor, Windows assumes the monitor has been wiped from existence by Thanos and decides to move ALL windows to the second monitor. This includes the windows taskbar, apparently, which activates the prompt "A toolbar is already hidden on this side of your screen. You can have only one auto-hide toolbar per side.", and nukes auto hide from this plane of reality.
Worth to note is that the primary monitor is connected via DP to a discrete GPU, whereas the secondary monitor is connected via DVI to an integrated GPU in the CPU.
Either way, the way Windows 10/11 handles primary/secondary taskbar and moving them between monitors is clearly broken when it tries to draw several toolbars on the same monitor and removing settings as a result.
I have the same issue. I have to re-enable auto-hide at least daily.
