The taskbar on your desktop is located on the bottom of the screen by default in Windows 11.
If you like, you can have the taskbar automatically hide in Windows 11.
If you enable automatically hide the taskbar, you can show the taskbar on demand by:
- Hover pointer on border of taskbar location.
- Press the Win + T keys.
- On a touchscreen, swipe inwards from the border (ex: bottom) of taskbar location.
If you have turned on Optimize taskbar for touch interactions when this device is used as a tablet, it can also cause the taskbar to auto-hide regardless of this Automatically hide the taskbar setting.
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- Option One: Enable or Disable Automatically Hide Taskbar in Settings
- Option Two: Enable or Disable Automatically Hide Taskbar in Command Prompt
EXAMPLE: Auto hide taskbar turned on and off
1 Open Settings (WIn+I).
2 Click/tap on Personalization on the left side, and click/tap on Taskbar on the right side. (see screenshot below)
Open Taskbar Settings
3 Click/tap on Taskbar behaviors on the right side to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4)
4 Check (enable) or Uncheck (default - disable) Automatically hide the taskbar for what you want on the right side under Taskbar behaviors. (see screenshot below)
5 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Open Windows Terminal, and select Command Prompt.
2 Copy and paste the command below you want to use into the command prompt, and press Enter.
(enable automatically hide taskbar)
powershell -command "&{$p='HKCU:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3';$v=(Get-ItemProperty -Path $p).Settings;$v[8]=3;&Set-ItemProperty -Path $p -Name Settings -Value $v;&Stop-Process -f -ProcessName explorer}"OR
(disable automatically hide taskbar - default)
powershell -command "&{$p= 'HKCU:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3' ;$v=(Get-ItemProperty -Path $p).Settings;$v[8]=2;&Set-ItemProperty -Path $p -Name Settings -Value $v;&Stop-Process -f -ProcessName explorer}"3 You can now close Windows Terminal if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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