My favourites Bar icons in Windows 11 are not coloured. How can I restore the colour.

Hi,

Allow me (well EdFrazier1) to help. Have you checked the below option to see if this works for you?

I found that if I went into Settings -> System and Performance and disabled both "Startup boost" and "Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed" that Edge no longer ran several processes in the background after closing the current session, so it worked every time after that (retained the yellow folders).

I disabled Settings -> System and Performance and disabled both "Startup boost" and "Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed" and restarted Edge. The folders are still hollow rectangles.

As I've said numerous times, like most Microsoft support threads, this is an entire waste of time!

@zBernie,

Can you confirm that you added " --disable-features=msFavoritesMonolineFolder" (without the quotes) to the Target field of the Edge shortcut.

@zBernie,

Yeah, my comments were in response to Connor_Hugill's post with the " --disable-features=msFavoritesMonolineFolder" added to the shortcut. I also had to disable "Startup Boost" to make this work consistently. Both have to be done.

This thread is hardly "an entire waste of time" because it provided a workaround with several users providing input...

I think I got this figured out now.

Here are the steps that are working consistently for me now on all 3 of my PCs and Laptop at home.

If you have more than one shortcut on your desktop or in the file system, delete them all except for one.

Change the shortcut for Edge's target to: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --disable-features=msFavoritesMonolineFolder

ALSO: from Edge, turn off "Startup boost" and "Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed"

Close Edge, reboot PC, launch Edge and the folders should be back you Yellow again.