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
    2024-11-27T02:03:56+00:00

    this will probably fix the issue as well, just reverse the reg setting to 03 to force it on and restart, the problem i had was pretty much the same but in reverse where it was enabling it for me even after unchecking it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-27T01:14:47+00:00

    Hey all i have fixed my issue where the taskbar was always auto hiding even if i turned it off in the GUI from the taskbar options.

    Open Registry Editor

    Press Start and type “Registry Editor”. Click the top result.

    In your Registry Editor search bar, paste the following:

    Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3

    In your main pane, double-click the Settings entry.

    To disable auto-hide taskbar, find the row with the value data “00000008″. Double click the value in the first column, which should be “02”, and change it to “03”. When you’re done, press “OK”.

    after you change the setting to the one you need restart the computer and it should work with whatever you select in the taskbar options checkbox now again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-26T16:31:14+00:00

    Well, I'd have to research if ALL my software would run seamlessly on Linux. I believe the hassle would not be worth the effort of switching OS, just because of one issue with Windows 11. I am staying on Win 10...

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-11-26T09:14:42+00:00

    Sadly it looks as though this is a users porum that is not monitored by Programming Support (Tech support is not Programming Support in the eyes of Microsoft) otherwise the issue would have been resolved

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-26T08:47:35+00:00

    I have the same issue. Its amazing that this has been a problem for almost 3 years now and no fix for all of these people. Imagine the flood of reports about one specific system issue and Microsoft is like "lets check if your computer is plugged in". How moronic. Useless help from Microsoft techs like usual. We'll have to wait for Windows 15 for the fix, all while getting more issues jammed down our throats and being forced to use an OS that isn't even polished.

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