possible to auto-hide taskbar on only one (of multiple) external monitors?

Copper Contributor

I have a dual-external-monitor setup, and would prefer to keep the taskbar always showing on one monitor, and auto-hide (but show on mouseover at the bottom of screen) on the other.

As far as I can tell, this isn't possible given the menu setup.
Some functions can be setup specifically per-monitor in Display settings.
But taskbar auto-hide lives in Personalization --> Taskbar --> Taskbar behaviors

Within this settings structure, there doesn't appear to be any way to auto-hide the taskbar for only one monitor.

I haven't been able to find info online on how to do this, either. I'd imagine it's something Microsoft didn't consider, or considered but decided it was too much trouble. I'm not super-hopeful about a solution being available, although it wouldn't surprise me if there's a registry hack for making this work.

Thanks for any help!

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@Alabamatom1963thanks for the reply!
That approach shows the taskbar on the main monitor (which I want). But it never shows the taskbar on the secondary monitor.

What I want is for the secondary monitor to use "auto-hide" behavior for the taskbar - that is, never show the taskbar, unless you mouseover the bottom of the screen.

From what I can tell, "auto-hide taskbar" is only available in Taskbar Behaviors, and doesn't give any way to apply that behavior to one monitor but not another.

Thanks - that looks like it would work.
Now I'm going to think about whether I care enough about this feature to buy an additional app.