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Customize the taskbar from the taskbar itself. If you want to change multiple aspects of the taskbar at one time, use Taskbar settings. Press and hold (or right-click) any empty space on the taskbar, and then select Taskbar settings.

Search on the taskbar can be set in four ways: either to Search box, which includes a full text box to enter your search (or your Bing Chat prompt; see Using the new Bing on the Windows taskbar for more) into plus additional search highlights, Search icon and label (displaying as a search icon and Search label), Search icon only (just the icon) or Hide (completely hidden).

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Press and hold (or right-click) any empty space on the taskbar, select Taskbar settings, select Taskbar behaviors, then choose Select the far corner of the taskbar to show the desktop.

Open Taskbar settings

You can hide the taskbar both in desktop mode and tablet mode. Press and hold (or right-click) any empty space on the taskbar, select Taskbar settings, select Taskbar behaviors, and select Automatically hide the taskbar.

When you disconnect or fold back the keyboard on your 2-in-1 device, you'll now see the tablet-optimized taskbar in the latest versions of Windows 11. This taskbar has two states: collapsed and expanded. In the collapsed state, the taskbar is minimized so you can focus on your task, but you can still see critical status icons like the time or battery level. When you need to use the taskbar, swipe up from the bottom to see the expanded state that has a touch-friendly design with larger icons. When you launch an app, the taskbar will automatically collapse again.

You can show seconds alongside hours and minutes in your system tray clock on the taskbar. Press and hold (or right-click) any empty space on the taskbar, then select Taskbar settings > Taskbar behaviors, and then check Show seconds in system tray clock.

Pin an app directly to the taskbar for quick access when you're on the desktop. (Or unpin it, if you want.) You can do it from Start or the Jump List, which is a list of shortcuts to recently opened files, folders, and websites.

Typically, the taskbar is at the bottom of the desktop, but you can also move it to either side or the top of the desktop. When the taskbar is unlocked, you can change its location. See the Lock and unlock the taskbar section to find out if yours is locked. When you've confirmed that your taskbar is unlocked, you can change its location.

Like many other changes in the taskbar, you'll need to first unlock the taskbar. Then, move the pointer over the border of the taskbar until the pointer turns into a double arrow. Drag the border to the size you want and release.

When taskbar is full. This setting shows each window as an individual, labeled button. When the taskbar becomes crowded, apps with multiple open windows collapse into a single app button. Select the button to see a list of the windows that are open.

Never. This setting shows each window as an individual, labeled button and never combines them, no matter how many windows are open. As more apps and windows open, buttons get smaller, and eventually the buttons will scroll.

Press and hold (or right-click) any empty space on the taskbar, select Taskbar settings , and then turn on Use Peek to preview the desktop when you move your mouse to the Show desktop button at the end of the taskbar.

Open Taskbar settings

In either case, the taskbar can still be accessed by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen. If you really don't want this to happen at the bottom, consider moving the taskbar to the top, left or right edge of the screen. The left side is usually the least used side.

One last thing I can think of that may work for you is to install a program that replaces the taskbar. If I'm not mistaken, RocketDock does this. You get a different bar in return, but you can configure this bar in such way that it is going to work for you.

Follow this settings1. Right Click on TaskBar2. Open Taskbar Settings3. On the right enable the following settings - Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode - Automatically hide the taskbar in tablet mode

I'm running Windows 10 and I was wondering if anyone knew how to change the task bar so that it hides as quickly as it un-hides. When I hover my mouse to the area to make it pop out to starts and completes really quickly, but when I move my mouse away to let it hide again there is a slight delay and if I overshot and just want to press a button near the edge of the screen it means I have to wait.

I tried the solution I read here earlier and it worked but it also disables the dragging effect of windows, so instead of dragging the window you will see a rectangle of the window size. I found this not very likable. And I found a better solution.

The taskbar in Windows 10 is extremely flexible. You can move it around, combine windows into one icon, and autohide it from your screen entirely. This is particularly useful if you use full-screen applications and want to hide the taskbar when it's not in use.

When the Windows taskbar is hidden, it sometimes doesn't always fully hide. Occasional the top is still visible and it creates a small bar across the entire bottom of the screen. Other times it does fully hide and everything is just completly black.

When an application is open in full screen, the taskbar remains hidden as its supposed to be . But when I try to access it by bringing my cursor to the bottom of the screen, it doesn't show up . this happens only when a window is open in full screen. On the homepage I don't face this issue and the taskbar shows up normally as it should.

In order to bring up the taskbar when a window is open I am forced to press the windows button every time which makes it a lot annoying.

I have seen this issue being present in windows since Windows 7 and was also faced by many people in Windows 10.

Saw many threads online also some of which being 5 years old but none of them provide a solution till date .

When some window is open, make sure to move cursor towards right part of screen, probably towards Windows notification area or clock area. You'll find that taskbar then appears more responsibly, IMO.

If you want more space on your computer or laptop background, you can hide the Windows taskbar when you're not using it. You can do this from the Settings menu in Windows 10 and 11, or you can use the taskbar's Properties in older versions. This wikiHow will show you how to remove and hide the taskbar in Windows 8, 10, and 11.

I have one user who has their Windows taskbar hidden whenever they share their screen in a Teams call. This is quite annoying as they can't swap between apps easily. I've checked that they're sharing their full screen and not a specific app, cleared their Teams cache and disabled GPU acceleration, none of which has worked. I also can't see a setting anywhere that would trigger this, but I might just be being blind. They're using a Microsoft Surface device which may have something to do with it?

About the taskbar staying hidden, this is also possible and inevitable (with current DxWnd architecture) whenever the game crashes instead of making an orderly termination. This is why I added the menu commands "Tools -> Desktop taskbar -> Hide / Show" to the GUI so that in the worst case you could easily recover.

The activity of hiding and restoring the taskbar was given to the target because the DxWnd.exe surely has control over the target startup, but it could control with much more difficulty its termination. Just think about launcher targets that start and die while the actual target has its own lifecycle.

In the target, the taskbar hiding can be linked to the main window creation, dxwnd.dll has a good control about the nature and size of the window. But the target termination is more deceiving. The taskbar recovery was connected to the WM_CLOSE message, but sadly it's not granted that any Win32 program will receive this message to terminate. For instance, any time you click on the red-crossed icon on the window titlebar a WM_CLOSE message is sent. But a fullscreen game could have different ways to terminate itself either willingly (ExitProcess) or accidentally (exceptions) and in this case the WinProc routine will never receive the WM_CLOSE message and will not have a chance to recover.

A better solution could be to use a locked semaphore (I think this is the name ...) that the target program should use to tell DxWnd that it is alive and willing to keep the taskbar hidden. As soon as the game terminates, no matter how, if it forgot to resume the taskbar then DxWnd could notice it and recover.

This seems to be a quite robust solution, the only flaw if both the target and DxWnd.exe die abruptly.

I used a trick like this many times on Unix, where things were much more straight-forward. On Windows things seems trickier (and much more complicated) but I'll surely try, there must be a way.

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It seems a non-robust mutex with a unique name could do the trick.

DxWnd should detect if the taskbar is visible at startup, then ensure that it still visible unless the mutex is locked by some program. The Hooked program should lock the mutex before hiding the taskbar. To be analyzed the more complex case where the taskbar is auto-hide, to avoid the risk that DxWnd will keep showing it....

In the end, I opted to the well known and already used semaphore architecture. I must say that Microsoft synchronization system appears quite cumbersome, but never mind.

This new release make sure that if the target doesn't provide by itself, the DxWnd.exe monitors the situation and recovers within 2 seconds. The monitoring thread is started only if the toolbar is visible at the DxWnd startup, just in case you disabled it before its run.

I'm not sure how it could behave with auto-hide taskbar (it may perhaps force the toolbar to return visible?) or in all possible DxWnd options. Some help for the testing would be welcome. 2351a5e196