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
    2024-10-08T14:22:02+00:00

    Can confirm, it makes the icons to appear again. I click on an app's missing icon, then minimize the app window and the icon appears again.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-10T22:08:05+00:00

    This is a very interesting attempt at a workaround.

    First, when I disabled animations, the usual "per icon fix" stopped working. Clicking on the invisible icon to restore the window and then minimize it no longer brings back the icon (so it only refreshed as a result of an animation).

    Second, the whole system seems much snappier without any pesky (if cool-looking) animations happening. I might keep it this way and see how that works. Thanks, Craig!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-10T22:04:01+00:00

    THIS might be the key to the bug (at least for my use case) since I also use virtual desktops and was wondering what the "filter" was that made some icons disappear and not others.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-14T15:52:01+00:00

    The registry key in question doesn't even exist for me, so couldn't even try it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-14T15:45:53+00:00

    I have been having the same problem ever since going from Win10 to 11. I'm competent to do the registry hack but, as someone pointed out, it's dangerous. One thing I've seen is that it only seems to happen when I keep the laptop in sleep mode overnight and longer. If I restart everyday it doesn't seem to occur. I have done more than a few restarts of File Manager If there was a keyboard macro to execute it that would be cool.

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