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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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Same issue here, icons become invisible when closing a fullscreen app or game or when switching between desktops, started to happen after windows 11 update 23H2, worthy to mention that:
1- did a reset pc with keep files and apps.
2- did icon cache rebuild.
3- did scan system using (sfc & dism).
4- did reinstall using iso.
and all above solutions didn't help, this is officially a BUG in windows 11.
fyi
Good afternoon, October 19, 2023! Any response or offer for assistance from Microsoft? (looks around). NOPE! Still an issue.
Thanks so much for your concern for us Windows Users who put money in your pockets. Maybe we should STOP DOING THAT!
Side note... I've read through so many articles and fixes and tried them all. My icons still randomly vanish. I keep my Task Manager open now so I can quickly restart Windows Explorer when it happens multiple times each day. Plenty of temporary workarounds. No actual Fixes for this issue.
Same issue here. Windows 11, graphics drivers up to date, system scans complete.
My workaround is right click on taskbar>taskbarsettings>taskbarBehaviors>ShowMyTaskbarOnAllDisplays
Would be nice to have a proper fix tho
I think that you are totally right - there is some bug in Windows 11 that just makes the Icons disappear. People seem to have workarounds to make them come back, but no-one has a reliable way of preventing it. What I found is that there is no obvious pattern - I did try things ( Like removing icons) which seemed to work short term, but then it came back again.
The only good thing I can say, is that without me doing anything, the problem seems to have gone into remission, and I have only had them disappear once in the last couple of months - mostly everything is OK now. No idea why !!
It's definitely an Windows bug, affecting a lot of people, and its been around for quite a long time.
I've got exactly the same problem - all my taskbar icons show after a system re-start, but some are not visible after the system comes back from "sleep". The empty tiles are still in their correct position, and when I left click the blank tile, the icon re-appears and the program launches. Also, its not every tile, because some of them still are showing the icon. I'm running Windows 11 22H2, having upgraded from Windows 10 about three weeks ago. Everything was working fine until about a day ago - but now its happening regularly. I don't know if it matters, but I switched all the Taskbar icons to the left, to look like Windows 10. I'm running a Dell XPS 8930 with a Nvidia GTX1660 Ti. Everything is up-to date. To me, everything points to a bug in Windows - but if anyone can give advice I'd be very grateful. This never happened to me in Windows 10 ............
You described my situation perfectly. Wake from sleep, Dell XPS and Nvidia video card. Restarting windows explorer fixes it until the next time it happens.
