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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.
To clarify my experience, the taskbar autohides just fine (albeit buggy/unresponsive at times), but rather doesn't auto-unhide as it should on my secondary or third displays. Approximately 10% of the time, it works, then randomly stops unhiding on demand. Right-clicking the taskbar seems to wake it up, so to speak, but right-clicking the taskbar is reserved for accessing the taskbar settings. Obviously, MS is aware of the issue, but it should be a relatively simple fix. Overall, I like the new OS overhaul in Windows 11, but there are some features that it's seriously lacking that should be standard, and the first that comes to mind is the ability to customize the taskbar to function more like a dock. I don't expect it to mimic MacOS of course, but something as dynamic would be nice, especially the ability to position the taskbar/whatever you wanna call the current implementation of whatever it is ??? - to any position - and even individually on separate displays.
- I can manually pull up taskbars on #2 and #3 displays by right-clicking in the lowest part of the respective display where they should popup just by moving the mouse there.
I unpinned a single app from the taskbar, and the taskbar on my #2 display started "auto-responding", but not the taskbar on the #3 display. After unpinning other apps from the taskbar with intermittent short-term success for taskbars on #2 and #3 displays, none of them will auto-unhide after restart(s).
After unpinning all apps that can be unpinned and then restarting, #2 & #3 taskbars can still be manually pulled up but can no longer be set to auto-unhide.
Proper taskbar operation on multiple display remains unstable.