Toolbars I put on the Task Bar disappear with each restart

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I just recently installed Windows 8.1, and as soon as I finished the upgrade, and ever since, I have had this problem. Any custom toolbars I put on the Task Bar disappear whenever I restart. For quite some time now (since Win ME, I think), I have used custom toolbars for My Computer (now called This PC in 8.1) and my Favorites, or Links within my user profile (not to be confused with my Internet favorites). Having those has been extremely handy as it allows me to view and access any of my drives quickly, and open folders I frequently access with one click. I think it was starting in Vista that toolbars had to be located on the Task Bar rather than being on some other side of the screen (I put my custom toolbars on the left side, and appropriately called it my sidebar). Having those toolbars limited to the Task Bar was no real problem, I just had to get used to my Task Bar being larger.

My current computer has had Win 8 installed from the beginning (I installed it myself using a clean install, not an upgrade). When I upgraded to 8.1, I was able to add those toolbars to my Task Bar no problem (right-click Task Bar >Toolbars >New Toolbar... and I select the folder I want to use for the toolbar), but every time I restart or shut down/turn on my computer, the custom toolbars disappear, leaving only the regular Task Bar and the Language Bar (I customarily keep the Language Bar on to be able to switch between typing English and Japanese, so I'm quite glad that at least it doesn't disappear). If I enable any of the toolbars already on the list in the Toolbars menu, they also disappear with each restart (such as Address and Bing Desktop; not that I use them, I'm just saying this to make diagnosis easier).

Granted, this is not a seriously harmful issue, as I am always able to put the toolbars back on again after each restart, and I don't restart ALL the time. But it's a major annoyance and it hurts productivity. Is there some way I can fix this problem? Or is there some update I can apply to do so?

Ethan Hayes

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Anonymous

2017-10-31T20:48:39+00:00

Apparently, this is a glitch shared on Windows 10's most recent build as of Fall 2017 - Fall Creator's Update. Build 1703 had its problems, such as having to punch in CTRL-ALT-DEL to log in every time I restarted the damn computer, but 1709 fixed it.

1703, however did not give me any issues at all when the language bar was minimized to the taskbar, and I had a custom "Quick Launch" toolbar for months. 1709 Does, so taking out the language bar and having it on top of the taskbar was my workaround until they fix this glitch. Without the language bar minimized, I can still use it and my QuickLaunch survives reboots, even keeps the icons where I left them in the toolbar without having to add '00' to the filename.

Although they should do what they can to fix these stupid glitches, I can sorta live with this, it reminds me of how a NEC PC-98 running Windows 95 ran its language bar.

Thanks for pointing out that key, too, should it go away because should I accidentally leave the language bar minimized before rebooting I can install the key, kill then restart explorer and it's all good, if you're okay with the unsafe, repeated killing of explorer that often (I can't remember needing to kill explorer for any reason in 1703).
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Anonymous

2017-10-31T20:13:29+00:00

Yes, it does.
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Anonymous

2017-10-14T12:10:01+00:00

I can not see the mouse pointer. Since the touch panel is enabled, the personal computer moves.
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Anonymous

2017-09-08T22:10:52+00:00

I am having a similar but not identical problem in Windows 10. My copy of W10 was just purchased & just installed about a month ago along with a new computer.

I have set up four accounts on my computer. The original account, David-Administrator, now behaves differently than the other four with respect to Toolbars. On the other three accounts, including the hidden Administrator account, I right-click in the Task Bar, select Toolbars from the popup, then New Toolbar. I see a drive called J:, but I also see the renamed version of J:, which is called Documents. I choose "Documents (J:)" and the words "Documents (J:) appears on my Task Bar on the right. I can log off and log back in to any of these accounts, and see the Toolbar as I left it: "Documents (J:)". That's how it's supposed to work, and that's how it does work -- except on the David-Administrator account.

On David-Administrator, I follow all these steps and get the same results, but when I log off and log back in, I find that the Toolbar now says just "J:", not "Documents (J:)". It's not a game changer, this bug (which apparently W10 inherited from earlier versions of the OS, since the issue of disappearing Toolbars is discussed below), but it is annoying since I have about five drives &/or folders for which I would like to have Toolbars, not just the Documents drive. There is no point in setting these up, though, if I can't memorize the letter associated with each drive. I can't remember all those letters, but why can't Windows 10 remember? And why does its memory fail only on one of the four accounts?

Does any other Windows 10 user have this problem?
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Anonymous

2016-05-12T11:49:28+00:00

I don't have this on my Windows 7 X64........... otherwise another different thread for same problems and never can be fix that:

The quicklaunch continue to disappears, in my case, after random reboot/shutdown procedure.......... very frustrating.
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