Windows 10: Main taskbar keeps coming back to primary monitor

Hi, I have two monitors. On the first I watch videos in full screen and play games. On the second I tend to leave browsers open with pages or YouTube videos. So I unlock and drag the taskbar to the secondary display so I can see the clock and notification area while gaming. The minimised windows will show on that taskbar, not on the 1st.

But when playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, I hit Win+P to switch to single display, since leaving it double makes the game minimise sometimes, I don't know why. Everything compresses to the first screen: taskbar items, desktop icons, Rainmeter and notification area.

Thing is, when I'm done playing, I hit Win+P again to switch back to Extend mode dual monitors. When I do that, Windows doesn't remember that the taskbar items were on the second monitor to begin with, not the first, so I always have to manually drag them to the 2nd.

Is there a way to have Windows remember the taskbar's place when I switch to and fro Single Display and Extend?

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How to auto-hide taskbar of the second monitor keeping unhide in the primary monitor?

Hi,

I suggest you to follow the steps below to auto-hide taskbar on second monitor and check if it helps:

Steps:

1. Right click on the taskbar and select
Properties.

2. In the Taskbar tab under
Multiple displays, Uncheck the Show taskbar on all displays box.

3. Click on Apply
and Ok.

This will display the taskbar only on the primary monitor.

Hope it helps. Revert to us with the results, will be glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Taskbar keeps moving back to primary monitor


That's a good one! Since I have the extension enabled this is what I end up when setting it for the right side still seeing the main bar on the primary display however.





You will notice there are two backgrounds courtesy of the UltraMON utility program. On the left side of the secondary I enabled a side bar type gadget while you still see how the main task bar itself remains on the primary. With the task bar unlocked you can drag it around the screen but anything can end up seeing it reset to the default position back on the primary when some program for example won't open on the secondary.





Here I have the task bar and extension set for the right side but reversed as far as which display they are on.





And this one has the task bar returned to the top but in reverse order with the extension





And this is where you have yours excluding the gadget. When using the UltraMON option to enable the secondary smartbar that had an interesting result.





There's the right click on the icon hidden in the system tray.





But this time however the extension remains on top due it being a 3rd party app until the position setting is changed. And now there's one other thing to include with all this. Namely what happens when changing the task bar settings while the popup for system tray icons is still open! I now have to sign out or restart to get that to close up!





At first that remained open where you saw it in the other screen for the UltraMON settings until the task bar was back on the primary and I clicked on the arrrow to see it appear where it is there. That only goes to show that the task bar and items within simply find their way back to the primary automatically in time.

 

How to auto-hide taskbar of the second monitor keeping unhide in the primary monitor?

I have this same problem too but the solution you gave appears to not be possible on windows 10. There is no properties for the taskbar when right clicking on it and the only taskbar options are in the newer (and less useful) settings app. There is definitely
no option to only autohide for one screen but you can autohide all or none (neither of which I want). I really hope microsoft fixes this with more options to do this. Why would they remove such a basic feature???