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
    2022-12-15T16:10:16+00:00

    Same thing here. The icons randomly disappear, or more correctly fail to reappear when the computer wakes from sleep. But left clicking where you know the icon should be, starts the relevant program and refreshes the icon. This has been an ongoing problem for some time and my system is kept up to date. It is a Dell XPS 8930.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-12-17T13:40:50+00:00

    Dell XPS9575 user here. Win 11 22H2 build 22623.1020. This problem has been persistent for the last four months. Waking from sleep causes the problem. Opening the Task Manager and manually restarting the Windows Explorer task fixes it without having to reboot or manually start apps just to make the icons reappear.

    I ended up making a simple batch script to automate it a bit. I cannot make the terminal command window auto close however:

    @echo off 

echo 

echo Terminate existing explorer process... 

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe 

timeout 2 

echo 

echo Relaunch explorer.exe 

explorer.exe 

timeout 2 

exit /B

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-22T11:34:37+00:00

    Same problem on my PC

    Windows 11 Pro

    Nvidia 3080Ti GFX card

    Clearly a Windows problem. Don't know why we're asked to reinstall graphics drivers

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-26T09:54:58+00:00

    Same issue here.

    OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Pro

    Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621

    System Manufacturer ASUS

    System Type x64-based PC

    Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K, 3000 Mhz, 24 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)

    BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0502, 9/20/2022

    BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.

    BaseBoard Product ROG STRIX Z790-F GAMING WIFI

    Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 64.0 GB

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-12-29T16:03:42+00:00

    In my case shorter hibernations make the lock screen background image disappear, whereas after longer ones both the background and the taskbar icons are gone.

    Win11 Pro

    Asus Vivobook Pro 16X M7600QE

    Ryzen R9 5900HX

    32GB of RAM

    Nvidia RTX 3050Ti Laptop GPU

    1TB NVME SSD

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