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
    2025-03-06T20:02:11+00:00

    To work around this nagging problem, I use explorerPatcher https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher and set the "Taskbar style" to "Windows 10 (ExplorerPatcher)".

    This completely replaces the Windows Taskbar with its own implementation. (Read the info on the Github page for details.)

    BEWARE that if you have Windows 11 24H2 you need to use the above "Taskbar style" setting to use this app. You will also have to tweak your Windows Defender settings. The developers of the app and several other Windows 11 Desktop enhancement apps believe that Microsoft is trying the prevent apps like this from working. The Github page has information on this as well.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-06T19:58:21+00:00

    Same problem, only mine is in Windows 10. It has been going on for some time now. I do have a multi monitor setup but my laptop never goes to sleep, I have that disabled.

    I often wonder why we bother reporting things. Like so many other MS bugs, this has been going on for years and clearly MS doesn't give a damn. At the end of the day they still get their billions of dollars.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-04T10:08:38+00:00

    Will Microsoft fix this bug this year? All bets are on!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-27T01:34:40+00:00

    Hey all i have fixed my issue where the taskbar was always auto hiding even if i turned it off in the GUI from the taskbar options.

    Not quite the problem we are discussing here, but thanks for the info.

    I want the taskbar to auto-hide, and I have used the setting in the GUI to enable it, but that setting keeps getting turned off. No one seems to be able to figure out how or why this happens or how to prevent it. And it seems MS just doesn't care.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-26T10:27:41+00:00

    If you really want to give them the finger and save some money, then switch to Linux. I'm looking forward to make the great switch to Linux Mint after support for W11 ends. I'm already using Firefox, Thunderbird and LibreOffice, so I can keep my mail, bookmarks, settings, ... I got Forté Agent to work under Wine, so it wouldn't be too much of a hassle.

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