How to Enable or Disable “Automatically Hide the Taskbar” in Windows 11 Customize your taskbar’s behavior. Here’s how to enable or disable the “Automatically Hide the Taskbar” feature on Windows 11. Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to NinjaOne’s IT video hub and our YouTube channel for more tech content like this. Four Methods to Enable or Disable Auto-Hide Taskbar The most user-friendly method is through Settings. Open Settings, head to the Personalization tab, and click on Taskbar. Then, expand “Taskbar behaviours,” and select or clear the box labeled “Automatically hide the taskbar.” For quick deployment, you can use either Command Prompt or PowerShell commands. For the former, run Command Prompt, and use this command to auto-hide the taskbar or this command to keep it unhidden. For the latter, run PowerShell as an administrator, and use this command to enable auto-hide or this command to disable. Finally, for admins who wish to apply this change while restricting user changes, you can use the Registry Editor. Open Registry Editor, and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3 Double-click the Settings binary value, and find the 8th byte in the second row, labeled offset 00000008. From there, modify the value by typing 22 (hex) to enable auto-hide or 02 (hex) to disable auto-hide. Click OK, restart your system, and verify by using Command Prompt and running running taskkill /f /im explorer.exe and start explorer.exe Modifying how your taskbar works is just one of many ways to configure your device's behavior to your own personal preferences. For more information, check out our official blog post on How to Enable or Disable “Automatically Hide the Taskbar” in Windows 11 Linked in the description below.