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frenchman96

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hi Guys

For some reason, when I'm on the internet in Chrome, my minimise/maximise/X buttons have disappeared, as have the taskbar buttons.

I know I can keep my finger down on esc to reduce the window, but once again, why has this happened.
 

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Does it come back if you press F11?
 

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It’s probably just Chrome in full-screen mode, which hides the window buttons and taskbar. As mentioned in the answer above, you can press F11 to exit full-screen, or if the window frame disappeared due to a glitch, right-click the Chrome icon in the taskbar, select Restore, and resize the window.
 

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July_Fl said:
It’s probably just Chrome in full-screen mode, which hides the window buttons and taskbar. As mentioned in the answer above, you can press F11 to exit full-screen, or if the window frame disappeared due to a glitch, right-click the Chrome icon in the taskbar, select Restore, and resize the window.
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You won't see the Taskbar while any app is in full screen mode.
frenchman96 said:
when I'm on the internet in Chrome, my minimise/maximise/X buttons have disappeared, as have the taskbar buttons.
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While in full screen mode you can make the Taskbar appear by pressing the Windows key.
 

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    My SYSTEM FOUR was a 2-in-1 convertible Lenovo Yoga 11e (1st gen) type 20DA, Celeron N2930, 8GB RAM, 256GB ssd. Unsupported device. This has now been sold. It has been replaced by my System Eight.

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    My SYSTEM EIGHT is a 2-in-1 convertible Lenovo Yoga 11e (5th gen) type 20LN, Celeron N4120, 8GB RAM, 512GB NVMe ssd, a supported device for Windows 11. Currently running Windows 11 Pro, plus Insider Beta, Experimental 263xx and 29xxx builds as native boot vhdx.
Hi Guys
1-f11 does not help
2-r/c on the chrome icon does not offer "restore"
3- Typical, it's working ok at the moment
 

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It has happened again, it seems to be when I open the Chrome icon.

I know I can press down and escape, but why has it suddenly started and what is a permanent cure?
 

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