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HenryDavis
Jul 15, 2026Iron Contributor
There is a delay when the taskbar menu appears after right-clicking an empty area of the taskbar
When you right-click on an empty area of the taskbar, the context menu takes about 2–3 seconds to appear, which is noticeably slower than in Windows 10. However, when you right-click an app icon pinn...
Cammsnen
Jul 16, 2026Iron Contributor
Microsoft has acknowledged a general reliability problem with the explorer.exe process in Windows 11, which manages the taskbar, desktop, and File Explorer . This can cause the taskbar to freeze or context menus to be very slow to appear . Microsoft has been rolling out fixes for this in updates.