Windows 10: taskbar and windows interactions

Howdy howdy.For a long time I've had this problem and today it finally annoyed me enough to see if anyone had the fix. I like to put a lot of small different shaped windows on my screens at once and to save on space I have the taskbar set to hide since it does nothing a need to constantly look at. The problem is that windows don't like to fill in this space without a hassle like holding the windows key and double tapping the cursor keys to have it fill the bottom space. Sometimes if it's really fighting me I just disable explorer and reenable it. Should I just write a quick few auto hotkey scr

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Unlocked Realtek HD Audio Drivers Windows 7 & 8 (With Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive)

Wait, but have you done the whole step-by-step guide described in the OP? DDL/DTS isn't supported natively by Windows 8/8.1 either, unless if you do the steps listed there.

 

Unlocked Realtek HD Audio Drivers Windows 7 & 8 (With Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive)

DTS supported natively by Windows 8/8.1 and it should work on windows 10 too just DDL require to unlock your driver .

 

Upon restart taskbar frozen until interacted with

Hi, first of all I have to make a clarification. Your first suggestion was to restart the Windows Explorer, but as I stated in the problem description, the taskbar is frozen only until I click on it or interact with it in some way. When I do that the screen flashes black and the whole Windows Explorer restarts itself and the taskbar works fine after that. Its just the very first time when I log-in the user, this problem happens. Interacting with the taskbar un-freezes it



Also, I had already tried sfc/scannow and the DISM but I repeated the scan and no issues were found. I also performed the Windows app repair as you instructed, and while I did get the red errors, the task finished and I restarted the PC, the issue persists.

I forgot to add in the main post the things that I have already tried doing:

• Run the PC in Safe mode with networking (issue still persists)
  
• Disable all non-windows services and disable all the startup programs (upon restart, the issue still persists)
  
• Unplugged all external drives along with my 2nd monitor, only leaving keyboard and mouse (the issue still persists)
  

My current Windows version is 21H1 which I installed just today trying to fix this issue. Previous version was 20H2.

I created the other user (test) as you instructed and here is what I found:

- The issue persists either way, but the problem has in some instances worsened

- When I sign-out of my main user into the "test" user the taskbar is also frozen and the signing-in process takes longer time than needed

- The new issue is that after creating the new user, clicking or interacting with the taskbar restarts it like previously (desktop flashes) but this time the taskbar is still frozen. Clicking on it more just makes the Windows Explorer restart again and again and I cant seem to get the taskbar to un-freeze.

- When this happens, I changed the user and the other user might have the same new problem (clicking on taskbar, it restarts but is still frozen) , or other times just the old problem (clicking on taskbar, it restarts and the taskbar unfreezes)