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
    2023-11-17T23:03:32+00:00

    This not only fixed the disappearing Icons for me but also corrected an issue I was having with moving photos from my phone direct to browser on Marketplace - so Thanks!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-18T23:44:02+00:00

    I have the same issue but I noticed it only happens after I wake my laptop from sleep

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-18T23:47:06+00:00

    This works for me too

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-19T15:52:51+00:00

    I have the same exact issue, it is incredibly annoying. And today it just got worse! I used to at least be able to unpin the item from the taskbar and then pin it again for each of them. Right now that is not even working and this time the icons were fine when I started my PC, they got messed up at some point afterward.

    But before today ever since installing Windows 11, almost every time I start my PC the icons are broken and I could either unpin and re-pin them all like I described above or I could run the following command and then restart my PC to hopefully fix them for that one restart...
    sfc /scannow

    DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

    DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

    DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

    I never had this issue with Windows 10 and I have reformatted back to a fresh install of Windows 11 two different times now and both times I had the same exact issue basically from the git go.

    I always install Norton 360 first thing in case that has anything to do with it but I already tried adding %systemroot%\system32\imageres.dll as an exclusion in the anti-virus settings everywhere it let me and it made no difference.
    https://answers-afd.microsoft.com/static/images/image-not-found.jpgScreenshot of what they broken icons look like... https://imgsh.net/a/K8W7mGI.png

    And I know a lot of people said that restarting Windows Explorer from the task manager fixes it for them temporarily but it does not fix the icons for me.

    Has anyone found a permanent solution for this? I am starting to lose hope.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-21T05:09:10+00:00

    Here in November 2023 to say I have the same problem as it's removing icons I've pinned to my taskbar.

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