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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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The only thing I've found that brings them back, other than a full restart, is to use Task Mgr to restart File Explorer. This always has brought back all the icons. Doing that is not that big a deal, it's more the thought that since it's not that big a deal MS could have made a software fix that dealt with the issue behind the curtain.
Logged in to say that this has been happening since about November 2023 after the windows update that added the option to group and ungroup taskbar icons. Since then, the issue keeps happening. It seems to start a few minutes after a fresh reboot and is triggered by changing virtual desktops or waking the computer from sleep. Icons become invisible at random and become visible again after changing virtual desktop (Random) or manually clicking them twice (when they do the little jump animation as the window is minimized). It might have something to do with the animations of the taskbar as well.
I tried all solutions in this thread and others, from sfc /scannow, repair health, deleting iconcache and thumbcache from AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Explorer, renaming the regex folders for file associations with .png and .ico files, nothing worked after a reboot.
The only thing that works is pinning icons to the taskbar. When an icon is pinned, it will never disappear for some reason... Still, it's not feasible to pin every single application I'll ever use to the taskbar. Microsoft, get your act together and fix this issue that's been plaguing so many users since 2022!
Same issue, it's still not fixed.
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
Also have this issue since 22H2 update. Hopefully Microsoft see the issue and put out a fix soon.
