Disable / Hide Taskbar Windows 11

[David.A]

I recently switched to a 32:9 Monitor which is mostly used for work. However when I game I would like to do so in 16:9 Format. So I changed the Settings ingame to 16:9 Windowed Fullscreen, which works perfect. Only thing is that at the bottom of the Screen the Windows 11 Taskbar is showing all the time and blocking the bottom side of the game. Is there any way how I can quickly disable / hide the taskbar and then show it again after gaming without much hassle?

The normal options for hiding the taskbar in windows 11 settings doesnt work as it still shows. Is there any other options for me?

I added a picture to show how it looks ingame.

 

Many thanks in advance

[emosun]

Could try ending explorer and see if that makes it go away

[TetraSky]

The taskbar staying visible in fullscreen games is nothing new. It's a bug that happens even on Windows 10 and happened on windows 7. Only thing that actually "fixes" it, is to reboot. Ending Explorer.exe doesn't work in my experience.

A temporary fixe is enabling the Hide Taskbar setting in windows, it should then at least "hide it" while you finish your game session.

[Mark Kaine]

Are you sure this isn't in windowed mode? check the ini.

 

8 hours ago, TetraSky said:

The taskbar staying visible in fullscreen games is nothing new. It's a bug that happens even on Windows 10 and happened on windows 7. Only thing that actually "fixes" it, is to reboot. Ending Explorer.exe doesn't work in my experience.

A temporary fixe is enabling the Hide Taskbar setting in windows, it should then at least "hide it" while you finish your game session.

i never had this unless the game is buggy and then restarting the game sometimes fixes it.