Taskbar won't unhide when cursor is at the bottom on Maximized window

Hi BenJi2D,

Thanks for raising your concern in Microsoft Community.

It sounds like your Taskbar won't unhide when cursor is at the bottom on Maximized window. I understand your current mood. And this is probably that notification messages from other apps have summoned the taskbar under the premise that Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode is enabled.

You coud first restart the Windows Explorer to hide the task bar, and then disable notifications from other apps to ensure the auto-hiding of the taskbar in the future.

1. Right-click the taskbar to open Task Manager > Tap Process tab > Scroll down to find Windows Explorer app > Right-click it and click Restart to Restart Windows Explorer.

2. Click Start > Settings > System > Notifications & actions > Find Get notifications from apps and other senders, and turn it off. This will disable notifications from all apps and senders. If you only want to turn off notifications of one specific app, you can scroll down and turn off notifications from the specific app.

I hope this helps, and feel free to post back if you need further assistance.

Best Regards,

Lynn Sun | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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It was already turned off :/ And Restarting doesn't help. It was working before the recent updates I think, or maybe not, but it was working like a week ago. Something has changed.

BenJi2D,

Thanks for your update. If the above two solutions do not solve your problem, it may be that there are damaged system files in the system. You can scan and repair them by running the following commands.

Press and hold Windows+X to run Windows PowerShell (Administrator), and execute the following commands in sequence:

sfc /SCANNOW

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth

Allow the process to finish and see if it solves any issues. Restart the device afterward.

Unfortunately, this fix worked for a few minutes, then the issue came back and since then I can't fix it if I repeat the steps :/

Hi BenJi2D,

Try the steps below further to see the effect:

1. Check and update if there are any updates in Windows from Settings > Updates and Security > Check for updates. Restart your Windows after installing the upgrade.

2. Uncheck Hardware Acceleration. Take Chrome as an example: Open Chrome's menu and click on Settings > Advanced > Settings > Uncheck 'Use hardware acceleration when available' option > Restart Chrome.

3. Enter into fullscreen mode in Windows 10 by pressing F11 key to see if the problem is still there.

Feel free to let me know if any update. And Wishing you a lovely Christmas season and a very Happy New Year!

I am sorry to once again report that unfortunately this didn't fix the issue. I updated, I disabled hardware acceleration in Chrome and the taskbar still doesn't show up, only shows up if I'm on desktop or the windows is NOT maximized. It's like the there are layers and Chrome's (or other software) maximized window is on TOP of the desktop, and the mouse is on top of the windows, so we have 3 layers, mouse on top, underneath is Chrome in the middle and the bottom layer is the desktop, and Chrome is BETWEEN those so the mouse is not seeing the desktop and the taskbar won't show up. The weird thing is that it worked when I enabled the auto-hide like a month ago and then just stopped...just decided it doesn't like to work in this way anymore.

Hi BenJi2D,

Try the following methods further to check the effect.

Method One:

1. Create a new text document

2. Copy the following command into it:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

explorer.exe

3. Modify the .txt suffix to .bat

4. Double-click to run the batch file when the taskbar is not automatically hidden.

Method Two:

Open the Control Panel > Select the large icon for viewing mode > Select the Power Option > Choose Balance as the Preferred Plan.

Keep me updated how it goes!

I was having the same issue as you, and I've been trying for months to figure it out. I just found out it's because for some reason windows explorer isn't set to always-on-top. It does unhide itself, you just can't see it because it's hidden behind every app.

I noticed this when I resized the chrome window and made it slightly overlap with the taskbar. When I hovered over the taskbar, it was behind the chrome window, and I realized this isn't how the taskbar was supposed to behave from my experiences with Windows 10. (So this fix is really only for if you experience the exact same thing)

I looked around to see if there was a way to get apps to be always-on-top without needing other apps, but had no luck. so far I've tried one app called Dexpot and it's been working pretty well. I found it on a random forum I found: https://superuser.com/questions/992445/make-any-windowed-application-always-on-top-without-keyboard-shortcut

Here's the link to Dexpot: https://www.dexpot.de/index.php?id=download 
After I installed it, I wasn't sure what to do, so I ran the app and it brought up a context menu.

From there, I selected; Settings>Controls>Window commands>Always on top and set my key combo to ctrl+alt+space (defined Space by clicking "Define" and then pushing the spacebar) so that I don't accidentally use the keybind while playing games (cause who ever pushes those three buttons at the same time??) (don't forget to click apply!)

After that, I brought up the taskbar with the start button, clicked the taskbar to focus it, and pushed ctrl+alt+space, and magically, all of my taskbar problems were solved.

Sorry for the terrible formatting of this response, this isn't something I normally do. I hope this helps though.

EDIT: Its only stopped working a couple times so far but ill keep experimenting and probably try a few more ways to get it to stay on top.

Sorry - it didnt work for me - so far nothing has!

Sparky

I am having same issue. It is very annoying. Mine actually does show at first, but the first time I minimize and maximize the window or switch to another window the taskbar will no longer unhide by going to bottom with mouse. I have to close windows and start over and again it will show but only until I switch windows or minimize/maximize. Another way to get it to show is by pressing windows key, but again as soon as I do any of the above it no longer unhides. None of these solutions have helped.