1. Windows 10 Hide Taskbar Not Working

Go to click on a program on your Windows taskbar and realize it’s missing? Sometimes, the taskbar will vanish and you won’t see anything at the bottom of the screen and other times only the Start button remains, but everything else is gone.So how do you get your taskbar back? Well, there are a couple of ways you can restore the taskbar, but it’s also a good idea to know what can cause the taskbar to disappear.In my experience, there are four main reason why your taskbar might disappear: 1. The taskbar is set to auto-hide and is not visible2. The explorer.exe process has crashed and the taskbar is completely gone3. The display resolution or main display changed and caused the taskbar to go off the screenLet’s go through each one of the possible solutions starting with the simple items first. Method 1 – Unhide TaskbarIf your taskbar is hidden, it should automatically show up when you move your mouse to the very bottom of the screen.

Windows 10 Hide Taskbar Not Working

However, if something has gone wrong and this isn’t working anymore, you can turn off auto-hide. To do this, you would normally have to right-click on your taskbar, but since that is missing, we have to go through the Control Panel and click on Taskbar and Navigation.That will open up the taskbar properties dialog box where you will want to go ahead and uncheck the Auto-hide the taskbar box.Just in case, you should also check to make sure the taskbar is located at the bottom of the screen. If it’s on auto-hide and on the left or right of the screen, you simply might not have noticed it.

Method 2 – Change DisplayIf you regularly connect your computer to external displays or docks, then your issue could be related to that. In Windows, you can just press the Windows Key + P or go to the Control Panel, click on Display and then click on Adjust Resolution or Change Display Settings.In Windows 7, you get a pop up dialog with a couple of choices like Computer Only, Duplicate, Extend, etc. You want to make sure it is set to Computer only.In Windows 8 and Windows 10, you get pretty much the same options in the sidebar that pops out from the right side of the screen.For Windows 10, you want to choose PC screen only from the list. Hopefully, if the taskbar issue was related to the presentation display, then this ought to fix it.

Apr 29, 2017  Also, make sure the mouse cursor is not on the taskbar, as it won't hide in this case either. Second thing you may want to do if the Windows 10 taskbar is not hiding anymore automatically, is to verify that the preferences are still set to hide the taskbar automatically.

Method 3 – Restart Explorer.exeThis is probably the one method that will fix the issue for most people. Explorer.exe is the process that controls the desktop and taskbar. You might also notice that sometimes in addition to the taskbar missing, your too!Since they are both running under explorer.exe, they both disappear at the same time. In order to fix this issue, you need to open the task manager in Windows.Check out my previous post on to learn all the different ways you can open the task manager in Windows. Once you have it open, click on File and then Run New Task or New Task (Run).In the box, go ahead and type in explorer.exe and press Enter. This will restart the explorer process and hopefully get you back your taskbar.

If you instead see a new Windows Explorer window popup, that means the explorer.exe process was already running fine.If none of these options worked for you, there are a couple of rarer issues that can cause the taskbar to disappear. Hopefully, one of them will work if nothing else has. Other SolutionsSometimes you will see this issue when coming back from Sleep mode. This can be due to hardware drivers that are not compatible with Windows 7.

It’s best to upgrade as many of the drivers for your computer as possible, especially video drivers.Even though I don’t normally, this might be one case where it can fix the issue. If none of this works, you could be dealing with something like a virus or malware. I recommend running an anti-virus program or anti-malware program immediately at this point.You can also try to in case any system files have become damaged, corrupted, or deleted.

If you have any questions, feel free to comment.

DROGATVEV/GETTY IMAGES/iSTOCKPHOTOQ: I have Windows 10. Normally, whenever I'm on YouTube and make the video I'm watching full-screen, my Taskbar disappears so the video takes up my entire screen. But lately, for some reason, the Taskbar stays where it is and blocks the bottom part of my screen, including the Play and Pause button and video timer.

I can 'hide' the Taskbar through the Taskbar Settings to get around this issue, but I like having it there all the time (outside of when I'm watching full-screen videos). Any ideas how to fix this?– J. Trejo, Fort PierceA: According to research, this is a known bug in Windows 10 and Windows Explorer and restarting the Windows Explorer application should solve the problem.Windows Explorer is the operating system's means of file navigation. Simply put, it's an graphical representation of the contents of your hard drive. Often, users access Windows Explorer to dig into the hard drive in search of a particular file, folder or location.The Taskbar (the bar found at the bottom of Windows showing your clock and which applications are open) is an extension of Windows Explorer, it should be noted.While Windows Explorer seems like it's part of the operating system itself, in reality it's a standalone application that works within the operating system. On occasion, usually after specific updates get installed, the item can hang or stall.

In those cases, the best course of action is to restart the application, which essentially resets it.That's what should be done here, since the Taskbar appears to be freezing when the video full-screen command gets activated.To reset Windows Explorer, follow these instructions:Launch Windows Task Manager. This can be done either by right-clicking on the Taskbar and selecting 'Task Manager' from the menu that appears, or by hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL on your keyboard and selecting 'Task Manager' from the list that shows up.From there, locate the line reading 'Windows Explorer.' Highlight it (left-click it once) and then either select the 'Restart' button found at the bottom right of the Task Manager window or right-click over the line item and select 'Restart' from the menu that appears.Once you do that, the Taskbar and Windows Explorer (if it's open) will disappear for a few seconds and then reappear.

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