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
    2024-08-02T12:42:36+00:00

    Have this worked for anyone?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-29T19:18:45+00:00

    Animations didn't work for me but I turned off the Transparency effect in the same menu and 80% of the icons returned. Not sure why all of them didn't...

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-29T19:16:40+00:00

    Have the same issue and it didn't start until one of the latest updates to Windows 11.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-17T07:04:09+00:00

    Me too:

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-06-06T08:16:00+00:00

    I am also having this problem with 2 different hp laptops but my lenovo laptop does not have this problem. The problems started back in 2022 and I have tried everything but nothing fixes the problem.

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