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I'm one of the many who encounter the problem where my taskbar stops auto-hiding. The only way to restore it to normal function is to go into Task Manager (or open a DOS command screen), kill explorer.exe, and then run explorer.exe. It comes back like normal and stays like that until ... the next time it feels like not auto-hiding. 😐
I'm trying to use Power Automate for a solution to expedite the fix: create a flow consisting of initiating Command Prompt, entering the kill explorer.exe text line, entering explorer.exe, and exiting. Being able to run this flow would be a god-send.
Trouble is: I can't make it work. I can't get it to start by initiating the Command Prompt, which means the flow fails right at the beginning because it doesn't have a place to enter the text lines in the subsequent steps of the flow. Can someone out there offer a little guidance on how to set up a Power Automate flow that starts by opening the Command prompt (so that the subsequent text entry commands go into the Command prompt window? Thanks much!
Are you choosing PA Desktop to do this as a learning experience? I can't help with that as I've not used it, but I'm all for learning. A batch file is quick and easy too though and may be the right/easier tool to do the job. Open Notepad and type in:
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
Save as restart-explorer.bat to your desktop. Double click and it does the trick.
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