Untrue. This started happening to me after upgrading my desktop PC to Win 11, and it continues to happen on my brand new Surface Pro 9
Icons Keep Disappearing From Taskbar - Windows 11
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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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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2023-06-27T19:03:47+00:00 That didn't work for me, plus it's lot of work to do on two monitors and interrupts your workflow
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Anonymous
2023-06-27T16:20:47+00:00 Not sure that anyone has an easy workaround - but the very fact that there are so many workarounds in circulation ought to show Microsoft that there is indeed a problem here.
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Anonymous
2023-06-27T09:58:29+00:00 You do not have to restart Explorer. There is an easier workaround: see my June 22 tip above.
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Anonymous
2023-06-27T09:29:16+00:00 I am having the same issue. It's really annoying to restart the Explorer everytime. I hope we can get a fix asap with new updates.