The Taskbar is one of the most used features in Windows 10 as well as other versions of Windows.
Windows 10 provides you with several features through which you can customize the Taskbar in many ways and the Auto-hide Taskbar feature in Windows 10 gives you more options for customization.
Automatically hide and show the Taskbar on your computer to help you customize the Taskbar to create screen space. When you move the mouse to the Taskbar, it displays all the functions as default when you have not set it up, but if you move the mouse elsewhere, the Taskbar will automatically hide.
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How to Hide the Taskbar in Windows 10
To set up automatic hiding of the Taskbar on Windows 10, follow the instructions below:
Step 1: Move the mouse pointer to the bottom edge or fixed position of the Taskbar on the screen, right-click on any empty area on the Taskbar .
Step 2: Click Taskbar Settings from the menu that appears.
Step 3: In the Taskbar settings window that appears, look at the interface on the right, find Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode and turn the slider below to ON mode.
The taskbar will disappear and will only appear when you move your mouse to the Taskbar area of the screen.
To show the Taskbar, do the same and switch Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode to OFF .
In this Taskbar settings section, there are also some other interesting features such as moving position, changing the size of Taskbar icons... Try to explore a bit to change according to your preferences.
Hide Taskbar on some monitors only
If you use multiple monitors, you can choose to show the taskbar on just one or both monitors. This is adjusted from the same Taskbar settings menu.
Step 1 : Turn the "Show taskbar on all displays" option to On or Off , depending on your preference.
Step 2 : Select one or both screens from the drop-down list to choose where the taskbar buttons will appear.
Move Taskbar
If you don't like the position of the taskbar, you can move it to any side of the screen.
Step 1 : Find the section named Taskbar location on screen .
Step 2 : Select an edge of the screen using the drop-down menu. The taskbar can appear at the top, left, right, or bottom of the screen.
Good luck!
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