Windows 10: A toolbar is already hidden on this side of your screen. You can have only one auto-hide...

I have researched the Microsoft site for this issue, and the last suggestions on how to fix this issue by a moderator were in 2019. Frustratingly, this issue is now closed. Others at this time were having this notification on their screen when they switched on their computer, with multi screens attached. My issue is that I only have my Hisense TV attached to my computer, not multi screens, and when I turn it on I get the notification:'A toolbar is already hidden on this side of your screen. You can have only one auto-hide toolbar per side'I also find that my task bar has become unhidden, and I

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A toolbar is already hidden on this side of your screen. You can have only one auto-hide toolbar per side

I have tried to resolve this issue with Windows support but they have no solution so far and the months pass by... so I would like to try here and see if some smart member(s) on Superuser can help me out!

I have an Acer laptop with 1 TV and 2 external monitors connected. (4 screens in total, laptop internal, 2 external and TV). The TV is connected directly via the laptops HDMI and the 2 external monitors are connected via an USB hub with its own gfxcard.





I have the internal laptop monitor set to "Disconnect this display" while the others are connected. The internal display is only used when all other monitors are disconnected. So I use 3 screens, the 2 external monitors and the TV. Like in the image below:





These are not my screens, just a pic I found on the web to describe the setup.

ISSUE:

I get this popup with error message in Windows 10 every time I turn off or on the TV, I it have connected to my laptop via HDMI.

A toolbar is already hidden on this side of your screen.
You can have only one auto-hide toolbar per side.





This is what happens:

When I either turn on or off the TV the other monitors flash and I hear the the blip-blop sound of disconnecting a device. Right after it happens the taskbar that I have set to Auto-Hide is suddenly popping up, is visible and does not hide again. This is irritating because I like taskbar to always Auto-hide. But most irritating, a warning sound and a popup appears with the error message:

A toolbar is already hidden on this side of your screen.
You can have only one auto-hide toolbar per side.

My TV turns itself off after a while to save energy and PLOPP I get the fricking popup again. Often in the middle of doing something that gets interrupted until I click OK on the popup.

I have tried searching internet for a solution or for someone with same or even a similar problem, but incredibly I could not find anything at all related. The issue is extremely irritating because I turn on and off the TV several times every day. And each time I have to close the popup and then enter taskbar settings and change it back to auto-hide.

To make things even worse the popup with the error message is sometimes showing only on the turned off TV connection so that I have to turn on the TV again and click OK on the popup to be able to access the taskbar at all again.

I got a few replies from a guy at Microsoft with suggestions, but nothing that worked or was even close to work, you can read it here: Redirecting

I would very much appreciate any help in this matter as it is slowly driving me crazy...

Thanks in advance!

 

A toolbar is already hidden on this side of your screen. You can have only one auto-hide toolbar per side.

Hi Dharlequin!



I wanna give thanks, to jimpemberton for providing some alternative options to fix this kind of issue.

For now we'd like you to keep us updated if you are still having some issues with A toolbar is already hidden on this side of your screen. You can have only one auto-hide toolbar per side. After performing the provided steps that was given by jimpemberton.

We hope to hear from you very soon.





Sincerely,



Consumer M365 Forum Moderator

Microsoft Community

 

"you can only have one auto-hide toolbar per side"

Whenever I connect my external Dell monitor to my Dell XPS laptop, I get a windows popup saying:

"A toolbar is already hidden on this side of the screen. You can only have one auto-hide toolbar per side."

Then in order to auto-hide my taskbar, I need to go into my taskbar personalization settings and tick the "auto-hide" option again - then it gets fixed.

It's very frustrating to do that over and over again whenever I connect my monitor.

I'm using Windows 11 and I don't think this happened before on Windows 10.

Thanks,

Alon