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Micah_IT
Copper Contributor
May 01, 2022

Taskbar is stuck on the left side of my screen

After switching from portrait to landscape mode on my second monitor, my taskbar seems to be stuck on the left side of the screen. My taskbar also no longer has any icons and all of the icons that ar...
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Memer
Brass Contributor
Sep 25, 2025

It looks like your taskbar settings got scrambled when switching display orientations. A few things you can try:

Unlock and move the taskbar – Right-click the taskbar → make sure “Lock the taskbar” is unchecked → drag it back to the bottom of the screen.

Reset taskbar alignment – Right-click the taskbar → Taskbar settings → check “Taskbar behaviors” and set alignment to bottom/center.

Rebuild the icon cache – If your icons are still missing/overlapping, delete the icon cache so Windows regenerates it. You can do this by opening Command Prompt and running:

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
del /AH "%localappdata%\IconCache.db"
start explorer.exe


Check display settings – Sometimes Windows still thinks the second monitor is in portrait. Right-click desktop → Display settings → verify orientation and scaling for each screen.

If none of that works, creating a new user profile can confirm if it’s a corrupted profile issue.

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