The taskbar in Windows 10 is at the bottom of your device screen, offering quick access to your favourite applications and providing features such as displaying time, date, system notifications, and pinned programs for easy viewing. It is, therefore, a very vital feature of Windows. In this article, we shall discuss How to hide the Windows 10 Taskbar. Please see How to Fix Taskbar Icons Missing on Windows 11, and Hide or Remove Search Button from Windows 11 Taskbar.
The Taskbar is an ever-present fixture at the bottom of your screen by default in Windows 11 and 10. It provides direct access to your frequently-used apps, currently running apps, the Start menu, widgets, time, and more. However, not everyone wants to stare at the Taskbar.
When the taskbar becomes annoying, and you wish your application to run in full-screen mode. But do not want to enable Kiosk Mode. we will show you how to achieve this in this guide.
If you find the taskbar more distracting than helpful. There are a few ways to go about it. If you wish to remove the taskbar permanently, you will have to use a third-party tool as shown below.
Hide the taskbar in Windows
The option to hide the taskbar is through “Auto-hide” in Windows 10. It is by design. But there are a few software out there that are capable of hiding the taskbar as I will discuss one in this article.
The following methods below will help in hiding or removing the taskbar in Windows 10.Similar steps can be followed to achieve the same behaviour in Windows 11
Hide Taskbar Via Settings: This solution is not the desired result. Here the taskbar will auto-hide (disappear) and re-appear when you move the mouse towards the taskbar. These settings are to turn on the auto-hide in Windows 10 at the moment. You could also remove the taskbar via this window as shown below.
The hide taskbar toggle is exposed by default. At the time of writing this piece, to do this in Windows 10. Toggle “Automatically hide the taskbar in tablet mode” to on.
Please check the box for Automatically hide the taskbar in Windows 11.
Hide taskbar via group Policy: At the time of writing this article, it seems you can’t completely disable the taskbar through group policy but can only severely limit it.
Also, see How to Enable the End Task Option on Windows 11 Taskbar, how to Hide the Action Center Taskbar Icon In Windows 10, and Hide or Remove Search Button from Windows 10 Taskbar.
Completely remove the Windows taskbar with Eusing Software
With Taskbar Hide from Eusing software. You can hide program windows completely with a hotkey, or minimize programs to the System Tray instead of keeping icons in your taskbar. It is useful if you need to hide some of your less-used icons from the System Tray. It is a free software.
After downloading, launch the installer and follow the steps below.
Click on Next to proceed
Also, click on Next to proceed
The Install button has been run and the program is currently installing.
Click on Finish when it is not. Remmeber to uncheck if you do not want to launch the program automatically.
You may be required to register but this you can skip
Click on the icon shown below
Click on all tasks
This will ensure the taskbar is hidden as shown below.
Or click on the Menu button. Click on the Taskbar as shown below and click on All Task
Repeat the process again, this will ensure all other buttons are grayed out. Click on All Taskbar
This will ensure the taskbar is hidden. if you found other solutions, kindly comment below so we all can learn from you.
