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Taskbar is stuck on the left side of my screen
After switching from portrait to landscape mode on my second monitor, my taskbar seems to be stuck on the left side of the screen. My taskbar also no longer has any icons and all of the icons that are normally in the taskbar corner are overlapping with each other. I've already attempted restarting the windows explorer and rebooting my PC. I'm not sure how to go about fixing this now. (Photo provided)
- r0gue1505Copper Contributor
Did you get this issue fixed. I have the exact same issue.
Please advise what you did to resolve?
- rnefmCopper Contributorbump!! got the same problem. This is the only thread I've found with the same issue. Been searching for ages and tried most suggestions for taskbars not working; to no avail. I use multiple screens with taskbars displayed on all of them. The only one that doesn't work is the main screen taskbar. I did not change the monitor orientation or anything. Since moving to Win 11, gotta say the task bar issues are the things that have annoyed me the most. It lags when trying to move icons around when you have taskbars on multiple displays, which is a known issue. Also the auto-hide function always glitches and doesn't work a majority of the time when I full screen programs. Might consider going back to Win7 or something else..
- r0gue1505Copper Contributor
rnefm I got the solution to this.
yoy need to fix it in the registry.
Do a google search for windows 10 on how to move taskbar to the left.
And it will show you how to make it also regular.
this occurred when some program crashed and reconfigured my task bar. It works now.
had to change the setting to 30.
hope that helps.
- Anwar100Microsoft
- DylanWells0999Copper Contributor
You can try the following steps to fix the issue with your taskbar:
- Right-click on the taskbar and select "Taskbar settings".
- Under the "Taskbar alignment" section, select the option for "Bottom" to move the taskbar back to the bottom of the screen.
- If the icons are still overlapping, go to the "Taskbar" section and turn off the "Combine taskbar buttons" option.
- If the issue persists, try resetting the taskbar by opening the "Task Manager", finding the "Windows Explorer" process, right-clicking it, and selecting "Restart".
- If none of the above steps work, try updating your graphics card driver or performing a system restore to a previous point when the taskbar was functioning properly.