How to auto-hide- taskbar in windows 10 using GPO or Registry?

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_{Wednesday, March 1, 2017 5:35 AM}

Hello,

i want to auto hide task bar when some applications are running.please guide me.

Thanks

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_{Thursday, March 2, 2017 7:14 AM ✅Answered | 2 votes}

Hi JiteshKumar,

Try to configure the following registry key. It should be "03".

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3

Restart the Windows Explorer process from task manager then check the symptom again.

I have tested in on my side, it could work well.

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_{Wednesday, March 1, 2017 6:37 AM}

Hello,

Please check the answer of this thread:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/b51d3048-0dea-4dcf-bc5e-4ee7f7e1ea28/how-to-remove-a-taskbar?forum=w7itproui

Hope this helps, Good luck!

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_{Monday, April 2, 2018 7:42 PM}

I know this is an old thread, and, while this solution is an answer to the registry portion of the original question, I would still like to know how this could be done with a GPO for Windows 10 client workstations on our domains.

I can create a GPO that changes this registry value at startup and logon, however the value does not replicate to the logged on user's profile unless Explorer.exe is manually restarted. Neither logging out and in or restarting applies the autohide registry change.

Adding an additional "hack" logon script that manually restarts Explorer would work in theory, but that's not an acceptable option per our best practices.

Is there a better way to accomplish this?

Thanks.

_{Tuesday, May 15, 2018 6:28 AM}

I've created a Active Setup that starts a script that accomplish this setting. The nice thing is, this script runs before the explorer is started. No Need to restart the explorer.exe. It only start once for every User...

I use this method for several user Settings.

This was the easiest solution for me...

_{Tuesday, August 28, 2018 7:54 AM}

Thank's a lot. It works on Windows 10.

_{Tuesday, December 18, 2018 2:35 PM}

please give an example or show the script

_{Friday, May 31, 2019 10:32 AM}

A script for Active Setup would indeed be nice, but one can read & learn