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
    2022-10-24T20:00:10+00:00

    Also having this issue since I updated Windows 22H2 & later

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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
    2023-06-24T13:42:36+00:00

    This thread started almost a year ago and not a single mention from Microsoft admitting this is a problem. You don't have 5 pages of replies all saying "I have the same problem" and this not be considered a wide spread bug.

    Microsoft needs to investigate and fix this and give at least an acknowledgement that they are aware of this defect.

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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
    2022-10-23T15:14:49+00:00

    I also have the problem. Started with Win 10 and continued when I upgraded to Win 11.

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