Why is Google Chrome full screen / maximize window hiding Windows 11 Taskbar?

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Whenever I make Google Chrome fullscreen (pressing the Square in the top right corner to maximise the window, NOT pressing F11 to go into "Fullscreen" mode), Google Chrome fully covers the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen. This is only visible if another application is overlaid on the screen, at which point the Taskbar comes back.

Any ideas on how to resolve? Image below - slightly cropped the right hand side as it has Sysnative post data.

FYI this is a dual monitor setup - the taskbar only disappears from the screen that has Chrome maximized.

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I think you are confusing Full screen and maximize. They are not the same thing.
Will said:
Whenever I make Google Chrome fullscreen (pressing the Square in the top right corner to maximise the window, NOT pressing F11 to go into "Fullscreen" mode), Google Chrome fully covers the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen.
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Did you mean to say that? Or did you mean the opposite? Mine behaves opposite of yours.

I note the Square is the "maximize" button. When I click on that, my taskbar remains visible. When I press the F11 key, that activates the "Full screen" feature. And that does indeed cover the task bar. too.
 
xrobwx71 said:
I turned off Hide Taskbar in Windows settings and that fixes it for me.
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Hmm, these are my current taskbar settings - at the moment Chrome is covering the taskbar, I don't necessarily think it's getting hidden:

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I'll also add the behaviour is not super consistent - after restarting or waking the computer, sometimes the window will go back to the correct behaviour where the Taskbar stays open.
 
Hide the taskbar and then unhide again.

Then also check and see if Chrome is set to "always be on top".

I've been looking to see how to accomplish this with no luck.

I've come across, make sure Chrome is not in full screen mode. (They never add where to look)

Also have seen, it could be the GeForce Experience app. Once closed, it supposedly fixes this issue.
 
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xrobwx71 said:
Also have seen, it could be the GeForce Experience app. Once closed, it supposedly fixes this issue.
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Interesting - did you find a report from other users? I've tried closing GeForce and don't seem to get any luck - the only time it seems to change is sometimes when waking the PC, it reverts back to the correct behaviour. However when the screen next sleeps and comes back the incorrect behaviour reappears.

FYI this occured both before and after my mobo update - not sure when it started, but in the last month or so as far as I remember.

Digerati said:
I think you are confusing Full screen and maximize.
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Afraid I've been around computers a little long to confuse those two :)

The behaviour is as I described in my first post - maximizing Chrome often hides the taskbar. Fullscreen mode also hides the taskbar, but that's working correctly.
 
Will said:
Whenever I make Google Chrome fullscreen (pressing the Square in the top right corner to maximise the window, NOT pressing F11 to go into "Fullscreen" mode)

Afraid I've been around computers a little long to confuse those two :)
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I was merely suggesting they can be confused (even by long time users) because they are similar but different. Also I wanted, in part, to make sure I understood your problem. You said in your first sentence after all, you were trying to make Chrome "fullscreen" to "maximise" the window. ???

I note if you hover over the square in Chrome and other programs, wait a couple seconds, a bubble appears that says, "Maximize" not "Fullscreen". And pressing F11 causes a popup to appear that says to push and hold the Esc key to exit "Fullscreen", not to "Restore down" as hovering over the square again does. Why it does not say to prett F11 again, is anyone's guess.

But hey, if it is impossible for you to be in error, then my bad.

Regardless, their behaviors are different. On my systems, Maximize does NOT cover the taskbar, full screen does. And that makes sense to me.
 

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