Windows 11 blank taskbar problem 16 July 2022 at 7:38PM in Techie Stuff 17 replies 154 views

spaceboy

Apparently this is quite a common bug at the moment after a recent update but I've tried a few of the suggested fixes online and none have worked. Can anyone help?

Chino

spaceboy said:

I've tried a few of the suggested fixes online and none have worked.

Maybe list the fixes have tried so people don't keep suggesting the same things. All any posters here will do will be to perform the same internet searches you have likely already performed.

mluton

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 bottom

spaceboy

That didn't work because when you right click on the taskbar nothing happens.

Gers

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.

tallmansix

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

spaceboy

tallmansix 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

She's already tried the explorer thing and it didn't work. She tried all the suggestions in a popular YouTube video apart from going back to Windows 10.

tallmansix

spaceboy said:

tallmansix 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

She's already tried the explorer thing and it didn't work. She tried all the suggestions in a popular YouTube video apart from going back to Windows 10.

Just looked back and your photo and seems that a restart hasn't been done since the last Windows updates:



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 /r

spaceboy

tallmansix said:

spaceboy said:

tallmansix 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

She's already tried the explorer thing and it didn't work. She tried all the suggestions in a popular YouTube video apart from going back to Windows 10.

Just looked back and your photo and seems that a restart hasn't been done since the last Windows updates:



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 /r

Just told her about that symbol and she says it only appeared today. I will try your shutdown suggestion though, thanks.

spaceboy

ok we did the shutdown thing, it installed update, but taskbar still the same:

tallmansix

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