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Windows 11 blank taskbar problem



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spaceboy said:I've tried a few of the suggested fixes online and none have worked.0
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Ok, Right click and make sure "Lock all taskbars" is unticked
Drag taskbar to the side or top so it docks.
Reboot, you should see icons again ?
Redock to bottom0 -
That didn't work because when you right click on the taskbar nothing happens.
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This happened to my laptop yesterday - I rebooted and the taskbar came back. Had no idea about it being a common problem, just thought I did something wrong.
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Press crtl-shift-escape to open task manager
Go to details tab, sort by name and find explorer.exe then right click end-task
Click on 'Run new task' and type explorer.exe
That should get the taskbar running in most cases, if not, then I would reboot.
As for a long term fix, check you have the very latest updates installed because this problem has supposedly been fixed.
And also do the following:Fix Windows commands
Search for cmd in the search bar and run the command prompt as an administrator, execute the following command:
sfc /scannow
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth
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Deleted_User said:Press crtl-shift-escape to open task manager
Go to details tab, sort by name and find explorer.exe then right click end-task
Click on 'Run new task' and type explorer.exe
That should get the taskbar running in most cases, if not, then I would reboot.
As for a long term fix, check you have the very latest updates installed because this problem has supposedly been fixed.
And also do the following:Fix Windows commands
Search for cmd in the search bar and run the command prompt as an administrator, execute the following command:
sfc /scannow
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth
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spaceboy said:Deleted_User said:Press crtl-shift-escape to open task manager
Go to details tab, sort by name and find explorer.exe then right click end-task
Click on 'Run new task' and type explorer.exe
That should get the taskbar running in most cases, if not, then I would reboot.
As for a long term fix, check you have the very latest updates installed because this problem has supposedly been fixed.
And also do the following:Fix Windows commands
Search for cmd in the search bar and run the command prompt as an administrator, execute the following command:
sfc /scannow
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth
So forgive me for being sceptical, I work in IT support and don't believe anything a user says until I've seen it with my own eyes and 80% of the time I'm right, this PC hasn't even been rebooted since the last windows update which is the first thing that should be done for any problem.
Many people think pressing the power button is turning the PC off and on but it isn't the same as a restart.
Can you ask them to do the following:
1. Win-key and R
2. Type cmd
3. Type shutdown /r1 -
[Deleted User] said:spaceboy said:[Deleted User] said:Press crtl-shift-escape to open task manager
Go to details tab, sort by name and find explorer.exe then right click end-task
Click on 'Run new task' and type explorer.exe
That should get the taskbar running in most cases, if not, then I would reboot.
As for a long term fix, check you have the very latest updates installed because this problem has supposedly been fixed.
And also do the following:Fix Windows commands
Search for cmd in the search bar and run the command prompt as an administrator, execute the following command:
sfc /scannow
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth
So forgive me for being sceptical, I work in IT support and don't believe anything a user says until I've seen it with my own eyes and 80% of the time I'm right, this PC hasn't even been rebooted since the last windows update which is the first thing that should be done for any problem.
Many people think pressing the power button is turning the PC off and on but it isn't the same as a restart.
Can you ask them to do the following:
1. Win-key and R
2. Type cmd
3. Type shutdown /r0 -
ok we did the shutdown thing, it installed update, but taskbar still the same:
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Ok, so have you done the Windows repair tasks?
Win-Key-R
type cmd in the box then press crtl-shift-enter to run it as administrator
then type these commands followed by a reboot as described in an earlier post
sfc /scannow
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth
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