How to Hide the Taskbar on Windows 11
It’s kind of like a magic trick
Your Windows 11 taskbar helps you quickly access your Start menu, pinned apps, and other items. If you have alternate ways to access those items and find the taskbar using your screen real estate unnecessarily, it’s possible to hide it. Doing so removes the bar from the bottom of your screen. We’ll show you how to do that on your Windows 11 PC.
Windows 11 offers an option to automatically hide your taskbar when your cursor isn’t hovering around your screen’s bottom part. This way, you don’t have an unwanted bar appearing all the time on your screen. It’s also quick and easy to unhide your taskbar if you want.
Use Settings to Hide Windows 11’s Taskbar
The easiest way toget rid of your Windows 11 taskbaris by using the built-in Settings app. This app offers an option that you can enable to turn off your taskbar. You can turn this feature on and off anytime you want, making it quick and easy to hide and unhide your taskbar.
Your taskbar is now hidden.
Hide Windows 11’s Taskbar Using Command Prompt
If you like executing commands and you’d like to use a command-line method todisable your Windows taskbar, we have you covered. You can run a command from your PC’s Command Prompt utility to hide as well as unhide your taskbar.
Your Windows taskbar is now hidden.
Your taskbar is now back.
Utilize PowerShell to Hide the Taskbar in Windows 11
PowerShell is another command-line utility in Windows 11 that you can use tohide and unhide your taskbar. Like with Command Prompt, you run a single command with this utility, and the utility disables or enables your taskbar.
Your taskbar is now gone.
PowerShell has brought back your Windows taskbar.
What to Do if Your Windows 11 Taskbar Doesn’t Hide?
If yourWindows taskbar doesn’t hideusing the above methods, one or more items on your system may be causing the issue. The following are a few items worth checking when you have trouble getting your Windows taskbar to hide.
If you have unreadnotifications in your taskbar apps, dismiss or read those notifications to make the taskbar automatically hide. You’ll have to do this for each app that has unread notifications.
If you have apps open on your PC,close those appsand see if the taskbar hides. If this method works, one or more of your open apps are the culprit. You can find the culprit app by relaunching one app at a time.
Sometimes, you have togive Windows Explorer a restartto bring certain appearance changes into effect. When your taskbar doesn’t hide, restart Windows Explorer to see if that resolves your issue.
You can do that by openingTask Manager, right-clickingWindows Explorer, and choosingRestart.
If your Windows 11 operating system files have become corrupted, that can cause your taskbar to malfunction. In this case, you’ll have tofix your system’s corrupted filesto resolve your taskbar issue.
Luckily, your PC includes a utility called SFC (System File Checker) to find and fix all the broken system files. Here’s how to use that utility.
Make Your Windows 11 Taskbar Disappear
If youdon’t use your Windows 11 taskbar, or you’d like the option to access the taskbar only when you want, use the above methods to hide your taskbar. You can then access the taskbar by bringing your cursor to the bottom of your screen. At other times, the bar will remain invisible.
And that’s all.
Mahesh has been obsessed with technology since he got his first gadget a decade or so ago. Over the last few years, he’s written a number of tech articles on various online publications including but not limited to MakeTechEasier and Android AppStorm.Read Mahesh’s Full Bio
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