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
    2024-06-27T13:25:34+00:00

    Same issue here... I have had this issue since I got this laptop that came with Win11.

    Can't figure out what exactly causes it... It just appear to happen randomly...

    Right click on the icon doesn't help. But if I left click twice, to maximize and minimize the window, it appears again.

    I usually have to do it several times, since I have several programs open and don't know witch is witch (also because windows keep rearranging the icons...).

    Dell Inspiron 15 5510

    11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11390H @ 3.40GHz 2.92 GHz

    RAM 16,0 GB

    NVIDIA GeForce MX450 2,0 GB

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-17T07:04:09+00:00

    Me too:

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-06T08:16:00+00:00

    I am also having this problem with 2 different hp laptops but my lenovo laptop does not have this problem. The problems started back in 2022 and I have tried everything but nothing fixes the problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-05-12T16:15:39+00:00

    I don't know if anyone from Microsoft is even reading this, but this is why people buy Macs.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-30T10:35:24+00:00

    I had animations disabled and that fixed it temporarily (for 1-2 months), but now it works again with animations enabled.

    I don't know exactly what fixed it, but I also did install the latest Intel graphics driver recently (31.0.101.2127 from Feb 1st, 2024).

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