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
    2024-09-22T10:09:03+00:00

    Nope, no solution or fix.

    You can turn-off "Show my taskbar on all displays" to prevent it from happening at all, or start doing hacky **** to try to counteract what's setting off this bug. Her are a couple of things I have experienced to work most/some of the time:

    1. Disable display overlays from manufacturers like Nvidia.
    2. After awakening from sleep (and seeing the error), lock your screen and then unlock it again.

    For the record, I gave up on dealing with it and turned-off "Show my taskbar on all displays". The Windows 11 GUI is very buggy - particularly in relation to dual monitor setups.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-22T08:51:54+00:00

    Been 2 years and still no solution?

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-09-06T22:16:31+00:00

    I also cannot get the Win 11 taskbar auto hide setting to stick for long - and I see this has been un unresolved issue for MANY years. How disappointing.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-24T04:35:52+00:00

    Dude, I don't care if my previous fix didn't work. I thought I had something that might help others, or at least be added to the common brainstorming pool. But if you are gonna come back at me complaining about it, I'm gonna tell you to get bent. It has nothing to do with a fix that didn't work - it has to do you with you being a turd on the internet.

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