How to Fix Windows 10 Taskbar Not Hiding in Full Screen
Recently, a lot of users report the Windows 10 taskbar not hiding in full screen issue. If your taskbar also won’t auto-hide on your PC, no worries, here are two fixes for the taskbar not hiding in full screen mode in Windows 10.
1. Check the Taskbar Settings
Step 1. Press Windows key + I altogether to open Settings
Step 2. Click Personalization, and then Taskbar
Step 3. There are two options that manage the auto-hiding functionality of the Windows 10 taskbar: “Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode” and “Automatically hide the taskbar in tablet mode”
Step 4. Enable “Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode”, and the Windows 10 taskbar will be hidden automatically.
2. Restart Windows Explorer to Fix Windows 10 Taskbar Not Hiding in Full Screen Issue
Step 1. Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-Esc to open the Windows Task Manager.
Step 2. If you see only the basic interface, click on more details.
Step 3. Locate the Windows Explorer process under processes, and click on it with the left mouse button.
Step 4. Click on the restart button to restart the process.
If you find other workable methods to fix the Windows 10 Taskbar not hiding in full screen issue, please share with us in the Comment section below. Thank you.
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The solution about restarting Windows Explorer worked great.
Thank you so much.
the 2nd solution’s amazing! thank you… it worked!
Glad to hear that. Have a nice day!
Autohide just means that it goes away until i mouse over where the taskbar would be and then it pops up. It completely ruins gaming. It was fine until 30 mins ago with an update. Please knock it off. Have a gaming setting that doesn’t make fullscreen small and hides the taskbar permanently until looking at desktop.
Thanks for your sharing, Ken.
both options kinda work…
but its not fixing the problem itself and it will occur frequently ive noticed.
2nd option is the best, i dont wanna be switching the autohide option multiple times a day, and the restart of explorer is otherwise good but it looses track of some programs ur running in system bar. like nvidia, few monitoring tools etc.
the fix is kinda like my car only runs full speed and wont slow down even when breaking, shot down your car using keys ingnition and restart, do this allways when this happens 🙂
its not a fix, its not solved, temporary “workaround” at best… though its generally been accepted option for over 2 years it seems, even by microsoft… great work MS, lazy as allways
There was no like button below the article. So posting a comment to express my gratitude. Thank you, the second option really worked.
Thanks for your feedback.
Great! Worked thanks!
This is not a fix by any definition, it is a band-aid that lasts till it happens again which is frequent with users like who have their pc on all day working – this happens every facking day sometimes several times a day! It is a registry flaw since Win 7 that has gotten worse with every update starting with 7 through OS 8 and 10; MS has consciously decided probably for cost-cutting reasons and head-count, not to fix this flaw/error in their OS. Win XP never once did this!
the restart explorer worked pretty fine thank you