Giving it a shot. Turned on the task bar for both monitors (I had dropped down to one as that mitigated the issue).
After: So far, it works, but the task bar is slow to respond after closing an application.
Window 11 taskbar auto-hide turning off
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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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Anonymous
2022-03-29T09:32:53+00:00 I use a hdmi 2.1 oled tv as a secondary monitor so I turn it on/off a lot to avoid potential burn in. Every time I turn it on or off it disables taskbar auto-hide and usually causes windows explorer to crash so I have to manually restart it in task manager. Not to mention after 30 seconds or so Windows 11 flashes black then randomly rearranges all my window positions. And yes, windows is up to date...
Don't want to speak too soon but my issue seems to be fixed after a windows update last night.
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Anonymous
2022-03-28T05:05:50+00:00 If you try something & it doesn't work, why waste your & our time by posting it here? That's for Microsoft!
This thread is to find solutions, not to constantly repeat that there's a problem! We all know there's a problem!!! 😡
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Anonymous
2022-03-27T17:33:19+00:00 Update 3/27 - Stable for 2 days. Setting it back to both monitors with auto-hide.
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Anonymous
2022-03-24T16:53:24+00:00 Update 3/24 - Upon waking the computer both monitors were back to showing the taskbar but no dialog box. Set to auto-hide and did log off and log on. Will see if that helps.