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
    2023-02-13T16:10:00+00:00

    Having this issue with a machine upgraded from Windows 10.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-16T13:36:35+00:00

    same here . since upgrade to windows 11 tray icons disappear after sleep . also sometimes searching the internet does not respond after sleep for a minute or so

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-28T12:17:06+00:00

    I have a new Dell Inspiron with disappearing taskbar icons. It happens with every single MS update which makes me think Andrew is onto something correct. A power outage occurred yesterday and the icons disappeared again which isn't related to an update as far I as I know. Maybe this problem doesn't get fixed because the experts at MS don't know what they did to make it happen. I find that incredibly unsettling. Thank you everyone who has this problem and wants the issue solved.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-28T19:46:38+00:00

    It's very disturbing that Microsoft can't fix this thing that they obviously broke.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-03-12T13:20:00+00:00

    Same issue here. Is there still no fix for this?

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