Windows 10: Stop notifications from unhiding my taskbar

Auto-hide function of the taskbar SHOULD be a useful tool to keep my apps and shortcuts nearby WHEN I NEED THEM. However, every time someone sends me a Teams chat, thetaskbar UN-HIDES and of course covers up anything at the bottom of my screen. This would be bad enough if the taskbar would hide itself again after a second, BUT NO: I have to switch to the stupid teams app to get the task bar to hide itself again.When I am working in 2 or 3 different RDP sessions, this stupid "feature" forces me to my main screen just to see some BS text from a co-worker: "Wow!" "Hi" and whatever else mess someo

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Stop notifications from unhiding my taskbar

I need my taskbar to be hidden UNLESS I need it. How do I STOP notifications from unhiding it until I click on a notification (for example in teams or outlook)? I get hundreds of notifications a day. As it is now, it makes the autohide feature essentially unusable. And yes, I do know I can turn off notifications. I DON'T want to turn off notifications. I just don't want notifications to hold my taskbar hostage until I acknowledge them.

 

Auto hide taskbar not unhiding

This was working fine and for some unknown reason it stopped. I have the taskbar on auto hide and when I move my mouse to unhide, it will not show the taskbar. I did not change any settings or download anything new so do not know what happened. I tried taking
auto hide off and it appears fine, then turned auto hide back on and still the taskbar will not unhide. Any suggestions how to get my taskbar to unhide without having to turn it on/off?

I also can not close one window, it makes me close all windows. The little + sign is gone to open a new window I have to go to the right side, open the drop down menu and click New Window. None of this was like this yesterday, the taskbar worked perfectly
so I am very confused. Please help me get my taskbar back to working normal again.

 

Stop taskbar from not autohiding when receiving notifications

Hi Mikael,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

When the ‘Auto-hide’ feature for the Windows taskbar is enabled, the taskbar will stay hidden until an application needs your attention. For regular apps like ‘Skype’, the application’s taskbar icon starts flashing when there is
a notification. You can simply click on the glowing taskbar icon to let the application know that you have seen the notification and the task bar will ‘Auto-hide’ once again. It is the same for the background system applications in the system tray, however,
in Windows 10 these system notifications go away on their own and you can view them later in ‘Action Centre’.

This feature of Windows 10 is by design. Which means that this can be solved either by letting the application know that you have seen its notification by clicking on it and viewing it once or by configuring it to stop notifying.

I would suggest you to check the ‘Notifications and actions’ settings in the ‘Settings’ application. Please follow the steps below.

1. Press the ‘Windows’ key and ‘I’ key together, this will open the ‘Settings’ application.
   
2. Click on ‘System’ and select ‘Notification & actions’ from the options on the left.
   
3. Scroll down to find ‘Get notifications from apps and other senders’, you can toggle it ‘Off’ to stop receiving notifications or you could scroll down to toggle ‘Off’ the notifications from the individual applications.
   
4. Some applications will have settings within the application itself to prevent the notification. I suggest you check with that as well.
   

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