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
    2025-06-04T14:50:21+00:00

    I think I have found a satisfactory solution after years dealing with this issue. Not sure if this is a new option or one I never noticed before but I turned off toolbars on other monitors so that only the main one has the toolbar and now it autohides as expected and has been working without a glitch for several weeks no matter if I have a second monitor or not. It's only slightly inconvenient having one toolbar but definitely worth it not having to deal with the toolbars suddenly not working or autohiding, or just switching which monitor it works on.

    Let me know if anyone else has tried this and it works ok.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-06-04T14:02:08+00:00

    Yep, I still have this issue too. Seems to be related to having dual monitors? Crazy that MS hasn't bothered to address this after 3+ years, but that's how monopolies work.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-11T13:08:02+00:00

    I had the problem with Win 10 before too. This feature was working quite well some years ago on the first releases of Win 10., then the engineers of Microsoft started to improve...

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-11T12:00:15+00:00

    IN that case I am confused as this is happening on my PC running under Win10

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-10T19:50:11+00:00

    Hunter - What worked? You replied to Lyner's post that had no solution. I've got the same problem that just began this week after the update that added the time to the taskbar on the 2nd monitor.

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