Force win10 taskbar to autohide even when there are notifications / 'apps requiring attention'

[Msprg]

I have win10 taskbar set up to autohide, and with its height set to 2 and multiple monitors (where the height is 1). Since the taskbar is set to autohide, and it does on all monitors, all maximized windows overlap with the taskbar while not auto-hidden. This is of course normal and expected behavior. However, sometimes Windows apps require user attention / popup an important dialog or something like that. When this happens, the taskbar icon is highlighted (sometimes with a number) and the taskbar is not autohiding so that the user can see the highlighted icon. This is also behaving 'as designed'.

However, some applications, particularly MS Teams, like to spam these notifications and, much worse, sometimes hold the 'needs attention' even erroneously, which causes taskbar to avoid autohiding, and at the same time not highlighting the teams icon either, until user focuses the MS Teams window, at which point the state is cleared, and the taskbar is finally hidden.

This, combined with a maximized terminal app where the prompt is at the very bottom of the screen most of the time, and teams making repeated and thus constant notifications due to a busy group chat, means constant fighting with the taskbar to hide and to stay hidden, on all monitors nonetheless.

Thus, I'd like to ask for a feature that would limit such behavior. Anything from completely ignoring the apps requiring user's attention, to popping up but then hiding after a few seconds and then not popping up for repeated notifications from the same app would be a greatly appreciated feature for me. Literally anything would be better.

If someone could point me at the right parts of the code, maybe I'd even be able to implement it myself. Thank you.

[pyrates999]

Set your notifications to sleep mode. Then it will only change the notification icon to indicate there is a new notification, but no notifications will be sliding in from the side.

You will then have to remember to check if the notification icon has changed though since you have set the taskbar to autohide.

[Msprg]

I don't mind notifications sliding from the side. In fact, I prefer that. The taskbar not hiding is what I need resolved. Maybe by enabling sleep mode, taskbar will stop its behavior, but then I'll be missing the notifications that would usually slide from the side as you mentioned.