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
    2024-08-01T21:26:24+00:00

    I posted information that someone might be able to work with and expand upon. I did not come here to hold anyone's hand, and I certainly am not maintaining statistics of the technical expertise of the rest of the planet that might be reading this. If you want to expand upon what I added to the conversation and turn it into a looping script, then that is a perfect example of why I posted what I did. It was sharing an idea, not giving instructions for a final documented resolution.

    I'll also add that if you (not you personally) don't understand what I wrote, then you should not be using what I wrote. Obviously this isn't an issue that anyone can just fix with a checkbox, and you should not be using anything someone posts online blindly without understanding it first.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-01T13:24:09+00:00

    If you're going to post a very technical solution, knowing that 95% of people here are not technical it would be a good idea to include a comment for each line explaining exactly what it does.

    My theory is that if you simply created a timed process running, say, every 10 minutes which executes a REGEDIT command to restore the correct setting it would >treat the symptom< (but not solve the problem). Trouble is, I haven't been anything like an "expert" in Windows for over 20 years...

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-12T14:31:16+00:00

    I use this shortcut that I found on the Internet. Not only does it restore auto-hide, it also places the icons on the desktop in their original place.

    Target*: 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*

    Start in: C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0

    I don't know how it works exactly; I just picked it up. And while it doesn't solve the issue it only takes 2 mouseclicks and everything is as it was.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-12T09:26:28+00:00

    I use ReIcon to keep my icons organized just in case they should move about. While it won't stop it from happening it will put them back just like I had them afterwards.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-12T08:34:01+00:00

    Noted!

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