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
    2023-07-14T22:17:56+00:00

    I'm having the same problem. Started happening after I updated to 22H2. Seems to be linked to waking from a sleep state.

    It's at least a little bit comforting knowing that there are a lot of other people experiencing the same issue.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-07-15T19:07:02+00:00

    As far as we have seen reports from others experiencing this issue, it only (?) occurs after waking from sleep but not on every awakening from sleep. The exact & predicable pattern has not yet been determined, in my opinion.

    Also, some report that some icons disappear but not all, others report that the entire taskbar is empty.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-20T17:38:25+00:00

    I'm having the same problem. Started happening after I updated to 22H2. Seems to be linked to waking from a sleep state.

    It's at least a little bit comforting knowing that there are a lot of other people experiencing the same issue.

    My computer doesn't go to sleep ever and I'm having this issue as well.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-24T20:48:02+00:00

    I double that

    My screen just goes off, sleep is set to never due to running VMs

    I have noticed today that sometimes the taskbar completely disappears from both monitors, not just the icon. Almost as the issue is getting worse?!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-08-25T10:34:26+00:00

    There seems to be more than enough here for a class actions against Microfrost.

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