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Windows 11 Task Bar Empty
I'm on the Insiders Build and this is something that had been giving me some trouble for a while. First, I had been pointed to the IrisService but that was a dead-end, and then I also been told to restart the WSearch service which may have worked but wasn't consistent.
Finally, someone mentioned trying to restart explorer, so I decided to give that a try. You could probably get this accomplished with cmd but I tend to use PowerShell more.
Get-process -Name explorer | Stop-Process
This killed the Explorer process and the Taskbar immediately came back and is working fine now. I'll see if I can try to reproduce again to verify, but this is a good start.
This is a great hint, thanks. What I did is : Press Ctrl+Alt+Del and log out current account, then log in again. It's annoying to do this every time I reboot my computer but it works. Hopefully Microsoft will solov this soon.
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Updated on Dec 17, 2021
I am not sure if it's because of the update these days. My taskbar is good now.
- I've just bumped into this issue tonight. It happened out of nowhere and is driving me mad. After 30 minutes to an hour of booting up the PC, i can also restart explorer through Task Manager and get it working, but a restart kills it once again. I've tried every proposed fix in the book to no avail. So i now have to keep my PC running, or hibernate as opposed to restart the PC
Let's be honest, this is an unacceptable bug for a major operating system, and being told to re-install the OS is a poor cover up for a glaring problem that can be fixed easily in an update if Microsoft actually bothered. I've heard this bug has existed since early builds of W11. Microsoft are aware of this, but their prescribed advice doesn't work. I will probably just revert back to Windows 10 if this is still an option, as W11 has just proved it's not reliable as an OS.
