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Windows 11 multi-monitor taskbar issue
What's weird is that sometimes (not all the time) when my laptop comes out of sleep mode, all 3 taskbars show on each monitor as through "Automatically hide the taskbar" was disabled. In this state, I go into taskbar behavior and it still shows "Automatically hide the taskbar" enabled. The taskbars continue to show "unhidden" until I disable "Automatically hide the taskbar" and re-enable it, or until I restart. This particular instability has only been happening for the past few days.
Teligence1970I just upgraded to Windows 11 last night and I'm having the same issue with my second monitor's taskbar. It won't re-appear after moving the mouse down to the bottom of the screen. What has worked as a "fix" is what the other commenter said, I unpinned the one icon I had pinned to the taskbar and now it properly reappears on my second screen. I was even able to re-pin the icon and it still works properly. We'll see if that continues to work after a reset though...
- This seems to have worked for me too very weird. I hope they fix this issue, it may be small but it is an annoyance for sure.
Interesting that the unpin/re-pin works for some and not others.
1. A good, simple data point might be whether or not your additional monitors are connected directly to your computers or whether you're using external display ports or something.
2. If it IS working properly for others, then their configuration may be beneficial in resolving this nuisance.
The inconsistency is really odd - especially since it was rock-solid in Windows 10 - for me at least.
- Mine are also directly connected to the PC. I wonder if the inconsistency lies within Upgrade vs. Complete wipe and Fresh OS install? I don't belive it is, since both my Desktop and Notebook PC have the same issue (it definitely compounds when additional displays are connected, so maybe the issue is primarily that the multi-display support is broken, since it seems that my primary display's taskbar functions nearly perfect most of the time (aside from some ridiculous lag often - but not always - here's another inconsistency).
bawb88This worked for me as well. Actually, I attempted to unpin it, which it didn't move but started working as is should on the 2nd and 3rd monitor. Thanks!
Still working properly after restart?
- For me it does not. I have to unpin and re-pin an icon on the bar to make it function properly again. Most annoying is that if I don't have anything pinned it won't work at all either. So I have to pin an icon, unpin it, and then re-pin once gain...
I'm going to try out Bullprun's idea next time it happens though.
- Interesting - I'll give it a try - as a test - not a solution.
It's a bit irritating that MS released Win11 before properly testing this well-used user interface (multiple taskbars.)- Yeah I was also taken aback about something so seemingly simple being broken.
