Question Windows 11 taskbar appearing over apps when I hover over it

[ashwilliams1994]

Starting yesterday I'm having an issue I've not encountered before. When I mouse my mouse towards the bottom of the screen on fullscreen apps to where the taskbar would be on desktop (so the taskbar is currently hidden), it will appear, causing my mouse to leave the current window. This is incredibly disruptive if I'm gaming, as it will stop my inputs registering in-game and cause the app to minimise if I click. The issue appears on any fullscreen or "windowed fullscreen" app.

So far I've tried restarting file explorer, restarting my PC, checking for windows updates, and toggling on/off the "automatically hide the taskbar" taskbar setting.

Windows 11 version is 21h2 22000.795.0

 

[Colif]

tried updating GPU drivers?

if it only happened 2 days ago, did you get any windows updates or software updates in that time?