Question Turning on/off Second Monitor Freezes Taskbar and Removes Pinned Apps on Taskbar (Auto-Hide Taskbar)

[Jhorg4]

PC Specs:
Windows 11 (fully up-to-date)
Z690 Gigabyte Aorus Pro DDR5
12700K
32GB 5200 MT/s RAM
1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus
GTX 1080
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 GT, 80 Plus Gold 1000W

Monitors:
ASUS 1080p 75 Hz
Samsung 1440p 27" Odyssey G7 WQHD 240Hz

Hi,

So I have an issue in which to fix it I need to open the task manager and restart Windows Explorer. Also, I set my taskbar to auto-hide.

Auto-Hide Taskbar On:​

When I turn off my Samsung monitor, my ASUS monitor goes black and then comes back on. However, the taskbar will not pop up when I have my mouse over it when an application is full screen. I restart Windows Explorer and it fixes it.

Then, when I turn on my Samsung monitor, the taskbar will pop up, however, no pinned applications will show up on my ASUS monitor. I restart Windows Explorer and it's back to normal.

When either shutting off or turning on my Samsung monitor the Nvidia Control Panel, GeForce Experience app, and Corsair ICUE will no longer be in the system tray.

Auto-Hide Taskbar Off:​

When I disable the auto-hide feature, none of the above issues are recreated.

I cannot find any bugs reported on this. Does anyone know why is this happening?

 

[helpstar]

update the GPU drivers by downloading from nvidia and installing the latest. Don´t use nvidia experience, could be the problem

 

[DelenaСhelsiecain]

If the problem persists, you could also check if there are any updates available for Windows 11 itself, as they might contain bug fixes or improvements related to multi-monitor setups.