How To Hide Taskbar When Viewing Video Full Screen In Windows 10?

Windows 10 is a great operating system. No doubt, Windows 10 is much better and more stable than any previous operating system from Microsoft. If you are using Windows 10, you'll be happy to know that you can easily hide taskbar when watching videos full-screen in the modern apps without any external tools or 3rd party utilities.

If you haven’t noticed yet, the taskbar of Windows 10 or any version always remains visible. Sometimes, when you go full screen, it will re-emerge itself on the window due to notifications.

This can be annoying, especially when you are viewing a movie or playing a video game. To help you relieve from such eyesore, here are some simple ways that you can follow.

Method 1: Check the Taskbar Settings

1. To open the taskbar settings, press the keys ‘Windows icon’ and letter ‘i' on your keyboard
2.  Afterwards, click on ‘Personalization’ then select ‘Taskbar’.
3. Select the options ‘Automatically hide the taskbar in tablet mode’ and ‘Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode’.
4. Close the settings window after enabling the options. Observe for changes.
   

Method 2: Restart Windows Explorer

1. To hide your taskbar when you go full screen, do the following steps.
2. Open Windows Task Manager by pressing the keys ‘Ctrl’, ‘Shift’ and ‘Esc’ on your keyboard.
3. Locate ‘Windows Explorer’ from the list.
4. Click on the process ‘Windows Explorer’ and then, click ‘Restart’.
5. Wait for the process to finish. Observe the results.

Method 3: Turn the Visual Effects Off on Windows

1. To open the ‘Run’ dialog box, press the ‘Windows’ and the letter ‘R’.
2. In the dialog box, type in ‘Control Panel’ and press ‘Enter’.
3. Afterwards, select the ‘System and Security’ option.
4. On the left panel, choose ‘Advanced system settings’.
5. From the ‘Settings’ option, choose the ‘Adjust for Best Performance’ option.
6. Save the changes and exit the window.
7. Restart your computer, and when you are back at the desktop screen, try to check if the problem will reoccur.

Method 4: Hide the Taskbar while Playing a Game

1. Open Task Manager by pressing the keys ‘Ctrl’, ‘Alt’ and ‘Del’.
2. On the Task Manager window, select the ‘Details’ tab, then click on ‘End Task’ on a process named explorer.exe. The desktop will disappear, leaving an empty space with just the wallpaper.
3. Afterwards, go back to Task Manager, click on ‘File’, and select ‘Run New Task’.
4. Choose the explorer.exe process again for the desktop to reappear. This might disable the taskbar to reappear each time there is a notification received.

Method 5: Hide the Taskbar while Accessing Google Chrome

1. Close all the browsers that are opened currently.
2. Press the keys ‘Ctrl’, ‘Alt’ and ‘Del’ to launch Task Manager.
3. Select the ‘Process’ tab of Task Manager.
4. Right-click on the ‘Windows Explorer’ process.
5. Click the ‘Restart’ option.
6. Try to open Google Chrome and visit a site with a capability to go full screen. Observe the changes.

Method 6: Override the High DPI Behavior of Google Chrome

To do this:

1. Right-click the icon of Google Chrome on the taskbar.
2. Choose ‘Properties’.
3. Afterwards, choose ‘Compatibility’ and enable the checkbox ‘Override high-DPI scaling behavior’.
   
4. Save the changes by clicking on ‘OK’ then close the window.
5. Restart Google Chrome. Observe if the changes saved help in preventing the issue from reoccurring.

Method 7: Use the Keyboard Shortcut

1. To overlap the taskbar, you can access the full screen mode immediately via the shortcut key: ‘F11’.
2. Other keyboards have different functions wherein you must press ‘Fn’ also while pressing ‘F11’.

Summary: Hide taskbar when viewing video full screen in Windows 10

• First, right click on the Taskbar and uncheck Lock the taskbar.
• Next grab an empty area of the Taskbar and drag it to the top of your screen.
• Now right click anywhere on the Taskbar and select Taskbar settings. 
• Scroll down to Multiple displays and turn on Hide taskbar on all displays.

Conclusion

There are several ways that you can use to hide the taskbar. It is often triggered to unhide itself on certain occasions like receiving notifications. The above solutions are simple and can help get rid of the taskbar when viewing a video in full screen or when watching a cutscene in a video game.