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After enabling Auto-hide on the Windows 11 taskbar, applications cannot bring up the taskbar
After enabling the taskbar auto-hide feature, when using windowed full-screen applications such as emulators or AMD Software, moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen does not bring up the taskbar. I have tried common solutions such as restoring the system to factory settings and disabling NVIDIA in-game overlay, but none of them worked. This issue occurs in both the 23H2 and 24H2 versions. Is this how Windows 11 is designed to work, or have I configured something incorrectly?
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Some community members have reported success with third-party tools like TaskbarX that override Windows' default taskbar behavior. These tools can force the taskbar to respond to mouse hover even during full-screen applications.
Based on the information available, you are not alone in experiencing this, and it doesn't seem to be a result of a mistake in your personal configuration. For many users, this is simply how the auto-hide feature behaves with specific types of full-screen applications in Windows 11.
Maybe this is exactly how full-screen applications behave compared to maximized ones.
