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
    2024-02-02T17:06:55+00:00

    I went into taskbar settings and unchecked the box "Show flashing on taskbar apps" and rechecked the box for "Show my taskbar on all displays" and that seems to have fixed my problem. Running Windows 11 Enterprise version 23H2. Taskbar has so far remained hidden.

    This did not work for me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-29T17:43:23+00:00

    I also have a disappearing taskbar, but I find that it comes back if I hit the windows key - but it also brings the news page up, which is a bit of a nuisance.

    I also find hitting the windows key twice when the taskbar refuses to go gets rid of it - sometimes only briefly though.

    Who'd have thought they didn't think it important enough to cure after all this time? We can only hope that they care enough to rethink it for windows 12 - whenever that comes out!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-28T20:24:39+00:00

    I have the opposite issue it disappears and I can not get it back unless I log out

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-17T13:59:10+00:00

    Tnx @AyanDaftary. I'm no programmer, but I picked this up a while ago:

    C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\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

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-11T02:48:47+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.

    Seriously, why is this still a thing? It's 2024 for .

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