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Today I can't hide taskbar in fullscreen mode on many games.

Anonymous
2023-05-21T18:24:52+00:00

Taskbar won't go away during gameplay. I'm playing on fullscreen and games are indeed fullscreen. This is recent issue since yesterday I didn't have such problem.

Today I was cleaning my keyboard and I let myself press multitude of buttons. I don't want my taskbar gone - I want to browse net as I used to - with taskbar - so option to always hide taskbar won't work for me.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Settings

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-21T20:01:25+00:00

    Hi Alice,

    I'm Amr, an independent advisor.

    Here is a simple solution you can try

    Right-click on an empty space in your taskbar and select Task Manager from the context menu. If your Task Manager is in compact mode, make sure to click the More Details button.

    Stay in the default Processes tab and click on Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) to select it.

    Click on the now visible Restart button in the bottom-right of the window, and then wait for the Windows Explorer to restart.

    Your taskbar, windows, and desktop may temporarily disappear — this is normal.

    When everything is loaded back up, you’ll be able to test if the taskbar has been fixed.

    I hope this is helpful. If you require any additional assistance, don't hesitate to respond to this.

    This is a user-to-user support forum. We're users just like you helping other users to find solutions to their problems.

    Best Regard

    Amr

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-05T10:05:15+00:00

    I have found an incredibly easy solution that is so comically easy I forget I do it.

    Right click the application you are having issues with on your taskbar and then left click it, if that fail try any other open applications.

    I think the issue occurs when opening an application and it already being full screen it thinks you are still selecting it so it keeps the taskbar on top, that's just speculation though I don't know nearly enough about it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-25T02:40:19+00:00

    To anyone else having a similar issue, you can fix the task bar behavior by restarting the windows explorer service. To do so, simply open task manager, scroll down till you find "Windows Explorer", right click it, and select "restart".

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-08-29T18:03:56+00:00

    Does not work this way.

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