Windows Taskbar Disappears Sometimes When Programs are Maximized

On your windows 11 or 10 computer if taskbar keeps appearing and disappearing on its own or its flickering or any other issue with your windows taskbar then you can easily fix the issue of taskbar disappearing on windows computer easily. So, lets see in detail below.

Windows taskbar disappears sometimes

If your windows taskbar disappearing then you need to check with windows taskbar settings and turn off auto hide in taskbar settings and other taskbar settings.

Windows Taskbar Disappears Sometimes When Programs are Maximized

Follow below methods to fix taskbar disappearing and appearing on windows.

Step 1: Open task manager on windows computer 

Step 2: Click on Run with task tab on top of the task manager.

Step 3: Now, in run dialog box -> Type cmd and hit enter or press ok. 

Note: Check the box run with administrative privileges.

Step 4: In Command Prompt enter -> reg delete HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\IrisService /f && shutdown -r -t 0 and hit enter.

Step 5: After executing the above command, it will restart and your issue of windows taskbar diapering or appearing sometimes and task bar disappearing issue will be fixed.

Restart Windows File Explorer

Step 1: On windows keyboard -> Press Control + Alt + Del or Esc key to open task manager.

Step 2: In Task Manager -> Find Windows explorer and right click on it and select Restart.

Step 3: Now, wait for your windows File explorer to restart.

After restarting windows File explorer, your issue of taskbar disappearing on its own or taskbar not working or any other issue will be fixed.

Turn off Auto Hide Taskbar Automatically

Step 1: Click on Windows Search and type in setting and open windows settings.

Step 2: Click on Personalization on left side menu

Step 3: On right side -> Scroll down and click on Taskbar

Step 4: Scroll down and click on Taskbar behavior 

Step 5: Uncheck the box next to Automatically hide the taskbar.

Once you turn off auto hide taskbar or automatically hide taskbar settings, then your taskbar wont disappear and reappear when you hover over windows taskbar.

Why does my taskbar randomly disappear?

If you have turned of automatically hide taskbar settings in taskbar then windows taskbar will hide and you need to turn off and also restart windows file explorer using windows task manager and this will fix taskbar randomly disappearing issue on windows computer.

Swapna Reddy
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Swapna Reddy is a Tech Content Writer and has a Degree of MTech Completed in 2011 and has an experience of more than 8 years as tech content writer and she writes about methods and solutions to fixing daily experiencing issues and helps users to resolve issues with All Smart tv'z, Computers, iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac and Optimizing methods and other tech related articles with real time experiences and fixes.

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