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
    2023-05-31T14:48:46+00:00

    I'm here with the same issue. I was hoping there was an east fix but it doesn't look like there is. My last computer had a free upgrade to Windows 11 and the first 4 months of that were spent with the Windows shortcut both vanishing as an icon and disappearing as a function.

    I think Windows 11 just makes things disappear.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-31T17:24:41+00:00

    I'm here with the same issue. I was hoping there was an east fix but it doesn't look like there is. My last computer had a free upgrade to Windows 11 and the first 4 months of that were spent with the Windows shortcut both vanishing as an icon and disappearing as a function.

    I think Windows 11 just makes things disappear.

    Remove all the non Microsoft shortcuts from the task bar and see if the problem still exists. The cause of my issue was an icon I added (USBDeview).

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-01T09:27:45+00:00

    I think that you are totally right - there is some bug in Windows 11 that just makes the Icons disappear. People seem to have workarounds to make them come back, but no-one has a reliable way of preventing it. What I found is that there is no obvious pattern - I did try things ( Like removing icons) which seemed to work short term, but then it came back again.

    The only good thing I can say, is that without me doing anything, the problem seems to have gone into remission, and I have only had them disappear once in the last couple of months - mostly everything is OK now. No idea why !!

    It's definitely an Windows bug, affecting a lot of people, and its been around for quite a long time.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-04T00:34:52+00:00

    @Microsoft is anybody listening to this feedback? hello

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-06-21T00:42:20+00:00

    Same issue here. Windows 11, graphics drivers up to date, system scans complete.

    My workaround is right click on taskbar>taskbarsettings>taskbarBehaviors>ShowMyTaskbarOnAllDisplays

    Would be nice to have a proper fix tho

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