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Windows 11 Task Bar Empty
Ok, so almost every time I boot up windows 11, my task bar shows, but only the tray icon arrow shows/works. The rest of the task bar doesn't load/appear. If I wait for maybe half hour and kill ex...
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.
Didn’t work for me
