Icons Keep Disappearing From Taskbar - Windows 11

Anonymous
2022-09-07T13:59:50+00:00

I upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 a few months ago, and ever since I've been having a problem where the icons disappear from the taskbar. It happens while I'm using the laptop as well as when it comes out of hibernation.

I know this can be fixed temporarily by restarting Windows Explorer in the task manager, but this is happening several times a day and it's getting annoying. Is there a permenant fix yet?

I'm using Windows 11 Home version 21H2 build 22000.856 on a HP laptop with an Intel i5 1035G1 processor and 8GB of RAM. The problem didn't exist when I was running Windows 10.

Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-09-29T15:24:41+00:00

    You are not alone having this issue, single (left) clicking the icons makes the icon reappear or explorer restart does the job.

    I don't know what causes this issue, this issue occures randomly on my PC. I hope we get a fix soon.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-09-08T20:32:46+00:00

    Hi, thank you for replying.

    My graphics are Intel UHD Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050. The laptop is a HP Pavilion 15-cs3001na.

    I ran system file checker, rebooted and an hour later my taskbar looked like this, with missing icons again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-11T17:05:32+00:00

    I checked and reinstalled the drivers yesterday, and I thought it had solved it but it's just happened again.

    I know it's not just me with the issue, but I'm starting to think there is no permanent fix and maybe some systems just aren't quite suitable to upgrade to Windows 11. We have a new laptop, that came with Windows 11 preinstalled and that doesn't have any problems.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-22T16:04:45+00:00

    I also have this problem. Restarting File Explorer did not help. Installing updated NVidia driver did not help.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-11-01T18:33:00+00:00

    I am having the same problem since upgrading to Windows 11. I can get icons back by restarting Explorer and then they randomly disappear. Really irritating

    I think I now need to work out how to roll back to Windows 10

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