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
    2024-08-14T15:52:01+00:00

    The registry key in question doesn't even exist for me, so couldn't even try it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-08-14T15:45:53+00:00

    I have been having the same problem ever since going from Win10 to 11. I'm competent to do the registry hack but, as someone pointed out, it's dangerous. One thing I've seen is that it only seems to happen when I keep the laptop in sleep mode overnight and longer. If I restart everyday it doesn't seem to occur. I have done more than a few restarts of File Manager If there was a keyboard macro to execute it that would be cool.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-07-29T02:25:04+00:00

    Hi, I experienced this terrible issue with disappearing icons, which affected most of my apps, including MS Teams, Spotify, Windows Settings, Snipping tool, etc. I tried various solutions, such as deleting the icon cache, removing Iris services, and even upgrading to Windows 11, but the problem persisted. In the end, this registry fix was the one that worked for me.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-09T14:55:50+00:00

    I have the same problem with a new Windows 11 laptop with windows home and integrated grpahics. I think that it's related to switching between virtual desktops.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-08T18:13:07+00:00

    I found the solution:

    Just remove a Regedit entry, and you´re done...

    Find your user's ID on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\hivelist.

    It should be the entry that includes the user's name on the value information. Example: \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Users\{USERNAME HERE}\NTUSER.DAT.

    Take note of the long string at the end of the name of the entry. Example: \REGISTRY\USER\{LONG STRING}.

    Now go to go to HKEY_USERS\{LONG STRING}\software\classes\.png\shellex and delete E357FCCD-A995-4576-B01F-234630154E96.

    Then restart, and all icons will be normal again.

    Did this fix (from DsH_SPain) actually work for anyone else?

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