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
    2024-07-11T22:37:39+00:00

    Hi, Yergz,

    I believe all of us, whether using single or multiple displays, have our own reasons for desiring a defect-free operating system for our personal computers.

    For the record, I did follow as many of the tips I ran across in the contributions from others as possible, before applying the Cumulative Update Preview update. In particular, I believe I turned off all Notifications, although I'm no longer interested in bandaids for this issue.

    Also, for the record, the "you can only have one taskbar on this side" did come back once -- but only once time -- since I applied the Preview update.

    Finally, it seemed that I needed to have the PC timeout for going to sleep be equal to the display timeout for turning off. Again, why this may be so, is no longer of interest.

    I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm ready for a defect-free PC OS. I say this as a successful software engineer (my fortes were debugging and graphic design and database access methods) and a holder of a Master's degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering.

    So far, I don't fault the hardware or firmware. It's the OS itself...

    --Dennis

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-16T20:15:49+00:00

    There are related bug reports in Windows feedback hub, which is probably a better place to report this

    AND VOTE on the reports!

    Most fitting: https://aka.ms/AAp6h35

    Related: https://aka.ms/AAp6h2t

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-02T20:58:26+00:00

    Unchecking "Show flashing on taskbar apps" in the taskbar settings seems to have worked for me. Fingers crossed that it continues to keep the bar hidden!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-02T09:17:58+00:00

    its been 2 years since this original post and im having this issue too, -_-

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-12-23T21:20:52+00:00

    This is the error message I get when the PC wakes up from hibernation. It can also happen when it is woken from sleep mode. The error is random and I have not been able to get it to replicate by force. When this error comes up that is when the hide taskbar option then becomes unchecked in taskbar behaviors. My thought are that windows sees that both taskbars on each monitor are hidden and for some reason, this is not allowed. I never had this issue in Windows 10. I went back and did a clean install of Windowws 11 and all of the updates and yet the problem persists.

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