there is already a toolbar hidden on this side of the screen

everytime my monitors go to sleep and when i wake them i get:
there is already a toolbar hidden on this side of the screen
Error, it is so frustrating and annoying.
So anyone has any solution to tthis annoyance?
PS. i wan't to keep auto hide taskbar active, so no disabling auto hide for me.

Can you attach a screenshot, or take a pic with your smartphone and attach it in your next post?

my system is in arabic but i googled the english version and attached the image for you.
this all started when i bought my first oled monitor a few days ago used 2 hdmi monitors were fine then this happened when i replaced one with msi 273qp x24 on displayport (for FW updates)

abdulhkeem said:

i wan't to keep auto hide taskbar active, so no disabling auto hide for me.

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I suggest you disable auto-hide pemporarily as a possible aide to diagnosing the problem.
- Perhaps disabling auto-hide will allow whatever other hidden toolbar the system is complaining about to appear, possibly identifying the root cause of the problem???
- Perhaps your new monitor / graphics driver installed a hidden toolbar of its own and that is what the system is complaining about???


Best of luck,
Denis

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auto hide gets disabled when the stupid error appears. what is windows even fussing about? i dont have any other toolbars hidden microsoft ruined their OS with the stupid redesign it was fine in 10 why re-invent the wheel over and over?!
the only thing working is setting only 1 taskbar on the main monitor "uncheck show taskbar on all my displays" sigh.

I've had the same issue on multiple devices for years now. In the end, I gave up and when this happens I run a batch file (contents below) that restarts explorer.exe, which addresses the symptoms. Hope this helps.

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
exit
exit

yeah i gave up on the stupid windows version and got myselft displayfusion which gave me a second taskbar without the annoyance of windows in the way LoL

abdulhkeem said:

yeah i gave up on the stupid windows version and got myselft displayfusion which gave me a second taskbar without the annoyance of windows in the way LoL

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Hi,
This behavior is to warn you about your language choice and can be turned off .

it is off, i never even turned it on. it's the Microsoft way to ruin everything just to anger their loyal customers sigh.