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
    2024-07-05T12:06:33+00:00

    I found the solution:

    Just remove a Regedit entry, and you´re done...

    Find your user's ID on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\hivelist.

    It should be the entry that includes the user's name on the value information. Example: \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Users\{USERNAME HERE}\NTUSER.DAT.

    Take note of the long string at the end of the name of the entry. Example: \REGISTRY\USER\{LONG STRING}.

    Now go to go to HKEY_USERS\{LONG STRING}\software\classes\.png\shellex and delete E357FCCD-A995-4576-B01F-234630154E96.

    Then restart, and all icons will be normal again.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-29T19:18:45+00:00

    Animations didn't work for me but I turned off the Transparency effect in the same menu and 80% of the icons returned. Not sure why all of them didn't...

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-29T19:16:40+00:00

    Have the same issue and it didn't start until one of the latest updates to Windows 11.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-27T17:19:17+00:00

    Honestly, I've just turned off the animations (Accessibility, Visual effects). That has been a solid fix on both my machines.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-06-27T14:47:12+00:00

    IT's no comfort, but this problem has been around for YEARS. It seems in someway to be linked to the PC emerging from "sleep" - but not in an consistent manner. People find that it comess ang goes - I had it badly about a year ago, and then it went away for a while - but then came back. I al;ways keep Windows Up to date, so it is a pretty deep-rooted problem . I cant beleive that Microsoft couldnt fix it if they wanted to, but presumably its not high priority for them..

    For what it's worth, in spite of people posting "sol;utions" from time to time, the most reliable way I have found to handle it when it happens is to go to Task Mamager, Find Windows Explorer, right click iand restart it. That has always brought them back for me.

    One day, it will get fixed .............

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