Taskbar keeps disappearing. Win 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

We would be glad to help you with the issue you are facing today. I understand the difficulty with the problem.

The issue could be like when you upgraded to Windows 10, ‘Auto-hide’ task bar option might have got checked. I would suggest you to try the following steps to disable auto hide task bar.

a. Right click on the Task bar.
b. Click on Properties.
c. Put a uncheck mark next to ‘Auto-hide’ the task bar.
d. Click on Apply and OK.

Also check the option “task bar location on the screen” need to select “bottom”.

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If the issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.

Thank you. 

We appreciate your time and effort for getting back to us and I apologize for the delay in responding.

I suggest you to follow the steps and check if it helps:

1. Open the Task manager.  Here’s a tip:  Press CTRL+Shift+ESC.
2. Click File > Run New Task
3. Make sure you have a check mark beside “Create this task with administrative privileges”
4. Type PowerShell
5. Type the following in the PowerShell prompt:
$manifest = (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsStore).InstallLocation + '\AppxManifest.xml’; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest
6. Close the PowerShell window
7. Reboot

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you

Hello,

Thanks for the update on the issue.

Try to:

Crete a new User account

To create a new user account, refer to the steps mentioned in the following Microsoft link:

Set up accounts

Let us know the results. Hope this information is helpful.

Hi,

I have suggested you to create a new user account to test if the issue is due the user account corruptions. If the user account is corrupt, everything should run fine on the new user account and in that case, we can transfer your data and settings to the new user account and delete the corrupt account. You can however delete the new user account if you wish to.

Do let us know if you try this method and the results once you have tried it.

I just signed up so I could comment.  I'm having exactly the same issue on my MSI GS60, running Windows 10.  I have my task bar set to hide.  It's position is along the bottom edge.  I haven't managed to pin it down to any particular game but randomly the task bar will disappear.  So far I've been rebooting to get it back. 

It just happened again so before I rebooted I went in to taskbar settings and tried moving it around.  If I move it to either the left or right edges it comes back and works fine.  But I cannot see it when set to either top or bottom edge.

Changing the display resolution didn't help, but I do feel like it's a scaling issue.  This is my first personal Windows laptop, I've always had Macs.  Other wise I'm pretty happy with it all, certainly the MSI.  I would like to get to the bottom of this issue though as it's upsetting a simple workflow.