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
    2024-10-01T21:30:34+00:00

    Yes! It is very frustrating!
    Seems like such a simple issue to fix! This is why I am staying on Win 10, until I hear this gets resolved, or MS stops supporting it.
    MS, GET YOUR $H1T TOGETHER!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-01T18:57:21+00:00

    Same problem. Totally surprised how old this issue is.

    Yeah. Me too. Really disappointing. Sad, actually. This "little" problem seems to be a BIG pain point for lots of people. And it seems MS is just flat-out ignoring it.

    If MS won't fix it, maybe someone could write a tool that does the very same thing that clicking the "Automatically hide the taskbar" checkbox does.

    The best work-around I have found so far to use the Task Scheduler to run a PowerShell task to set a Registry value and restart Explorer whenever I login or when I unlock the screen.

    powershell.exe -command "&{$p='HKCU:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3';$v=(Get-ItemProperty -Path $p).Settings;$v[8]=3;&Set-ItemProperty -Path $p -Name Settings -Value $v;&Stop-Process -f -ProcessName explorer}"

    But this doesn't help at all when auto-hide gets turned off at some random time while I'm actually at my PC and I'm busy working. And it restarts Windows Explorer, which closes all my Explorer Windows!!! It also seems to cause some of my running apps to change size and location???

    I'll just add this to the list...

    • Desktop Icons moving around to random locations at random times, not just at Login or Unlock.
    • NONE of my Startup Apps that are set up in the Registry - ONLY the Registry - actually get started. (I have to add them to my Startup Folder!!!) MS tells me the ONLY way to fix this is to create a new User and use that.
    • "Automatically hide the taskbar" keeps getting turned off at random times, not just at Login or Unlock.
    • ... the list just keeps on going...

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-08-01T00:20:11+00:00

    This might be a solution to blow-out a glitch in the taskbar settings/config in Windows 11: 

      TASKKILL /f /im explorer.exe
  TASKKILL /f /im shellexperiencehost.exe
  REG DELETE HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop /F
  DEL %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ShellExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState* /q
  START explorer.exe

    Copy/paste these five commands into an Administrator mode command prompt, or dump it into a batch script file. So far so good for me. I haven't been able to force the condition again (which I could recurringly do previously). Will post back if it comes back again 🤞

    PS: This won't fix the FancyZones issue I mentioned

    This fix did not survive a sleep mode event.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-27T11:29:09+00:00

    Update did not fix the problem on my laptop

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-19T12:56:09+00:00

    Microsoft is every bit as responsive to real issues as our government lol!

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