Window 11 taskbar auto-hide turning off

Question

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.

Answer 1

I have the exact same issue like the topic opener. Your answer, dear Microsoft support, does not help at all. You describe how to disable the auto-hide feature. That is not our issue. Did you read the topic openers description? We have the following issue:

We enable the auto-hide feature and we know how to do it in the settings and we want it to stay enabled. But Windows does not remember the setting after it goes to sleep or after rebooting. The auto-hide feature is always disabled again by windows itself. The user permanently has to re-enable the feature in the setting. Like the topic owner i also use a dual monitor setup. Please accept this as being a bug and forward it to the developers so it can be solved.

Thanks and best regards

Juergen

Answer 2

I apologize in advance if I'm repeating what another user in this 42 page thread has already said but I do get the same issue with the auto-hide feature turning itself off. When coming back from sleep I usually get a popup saying something roughly translating to: the auto-hide feature was turned off because there was no taskbar found to apply it on.

In my case, I suspect this issue may have something to do with my DisplayPort monitors natively go into deep sleep mode when the computer goes to sleep. Deep sleep makes the monitors go completely undetected. As such, whenever Windows goes to sleep, I imagine it momentarily cannot find any display device installed and destroys its user interface including those taskbars that are supposed to be getting hidden. I think it may be something along those lines that turns the setting off over and over.

In any case, the fact that an accurate pop-up message is shown to me when the issue occurs means that some error or event was caught that could have been used to reactivate auto-hide in the background instead.

Answer 3

He didn't want to disable the setting!!! He wants it to stay checked.

Answer 4

I agree. Also, I see numerous posts saying this appears to be related to having multiple monitors. I don't disagree with this, but will add, it happens almost every time I access a system with remote desktop connection (which I use a lot).

Apparently, the "multiple display issue" isn't limited to having 2 physical monitors connected to the system....

Having been someone who has developed operating systems, compilers, communications systems, etc., I wouldn't think this should have been going on for YEARS?

Answer 5

I have reported before that in my experience, this was not solely related to multiple monitors. I cannot give an up-to-date report on this because my separate laptop hasn't been used regularly for some time, but there was a point when that one was the one that gave the trouble, whereas my dual monitor setup seemed to work without a problem for a while. Unfortunately that is no longer the case, but I've just stopped worrying because after all this time I know that Microsoft aren't listening.