Hi Athar,

There may be various factors due to which the taskbar is not hiding. I am highlighting some of them for you below:

1. When you’re using the auto-hide feature for the Windows taskbar, it will stay hidden until an application starts flashing the taskbar button, or there’s a notification balloon from a system tray icon.
For example, you’ll notice here that if someone has sent you an instant message, which caused the taskbar to display, and the icon to change.

In this case, you can simply click on that window to dismiss the notification and the taskbar will hide again.

These are obviously easy to close as well, or you can customize the notifications to not display.

The Turn system icons on or off window will open and here you change Action Center to Off. Notice you can also turn other system icons on or off as well.

2. Verify the Taskbar Settings

Right-click on your Taskbar and choose Properties, which should bring up this dialog. You’ll want to make sure that the box for “Auto-hide the taskbar” is set correctly. Sometimes you can simply uncheck this, click Apply, and then re-check and click Apply again.

3. Temporary Fix is to Restart Windows Explorer

Sometimes when this problem happens, you can simply restart Explorer.exe to make the problem go away.

Just press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open up Task Manager, and use End Process on explorer.exe.


I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Lokesh