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
    2023-07-11T00:53:44+00:00

    Greetings from July 2023 where this issue has still not been fixed. It always pops up after my computer has been hibernating for a couple hours and the only fix is to either click all the invisible icon buttons or restart windows explorer. The fact that this still has not been fixed a year later is quite pathetic, Microsoft.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-04T00:34:52+00:00

    @Microsoft is anybody listening to this feedback? hello

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-15T16:10:16+00:00

    Same thing here. The icons randomly disappear, or more correctly fail to reappear when the computer wakes from sleep. But left clicking where you know the icon should be, starts the relevant program and refreshes the icon. This has been an ongoing problem for some time and my system is kept up to date. It is a Dell XPS 8930.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-11-12T07:10:15+00:00

    I have noticed this too when I wake my computer or after the screen goes blank for any reason my icons next to the time disappear but when I hover my mouse over them they reappear.. not a major issue but gets annoying. Running Windows 11 22H2 it didnt happen before the 22H2 update.

    Have an Intel 10700 cpu and auros 3070 video card

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-01-01T10:39:23+00:00

    Same issue here. Clean install of Windows 10, then an automatic update to Windows 11 (and unwanted by the way, thank you Microsoft).

    Now the icons on the taskbar keep disappearing. Doesn't seem to be a new issue either, reports have been around since mid 2021.

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