{"id":710,"date":"2017-09-15T07:31:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iseepassword.com\/blog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2023-10-10T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:50:30","slug":"fix-windows-taskbar-not-working-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iseepassword.com\/blog\/fix-windows-taskbar-not-working-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix Windows Taskbar Not Working Issue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 taskbar is very convenient as it provides you the platform to perform multi-tasking, such as handling multiple desktops, to run shortcuts, especially <strong>Cortana<\/strong> the function introduced in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">While working on your PC have you ever come up with intermittent issues where your Windows 10 taskbar is not functioning properly? This is not something uncommon among users to have issues with Windows 10 UI components, like Windows taskbar. Sometimes, icons on the Taskbar do not become visible, or it freezes, while switching from window to window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>List of Problems with Windows 10 Taskbar<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Windows 10 taskbar not hiding when you are trying to hide it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Taskbar is missing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Windows 10 taskbar is only working after system updates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Windows 10 taskbar auto-hides without admin permission.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Icons on the taskbar are not visible.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Shortcuts in the taskbar are not opening on clicking on them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Thus if the issue is not attended with immediacy, it would greatly affect your performance and work rate.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This article would demonstrate two such techniques to resolve your problem at one go.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Simply go through the methods mentioned below to ensure complete rectification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iseepassword.com\/blog\/enable-or-disable-settings-in-windows-10\/\">How to Enable or Disable Settings in Windows 10?<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Method #1: Restart Windows Explorer<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This method is quite simple to attend to, as it does not involve any major system changes. Sometimes, the background processes or tasks get stuck due to overflow, and impedes the usual operation of the system. The restarting of Windows explorer process in the background would simply restore the taskbar to its normalcy. Go through the steps as mentioned below to bring back the taskbar again:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Step 1.Press the \u201cWindows logo key + R\u201d to open the \u201cRun\u201d dialog box at the bottom left corner of the screen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Step 2.In the blank search field, type \u201ctaskmgr.exe\u201d and hit \u201cEnter\u201d. It will open up the Task manager window instantly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> You can also open the task manager by right-clicking the taskbar at the bottom. But since the taskbar is not functioning properly, we have to manually open it using RUN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Step 3.Now; among all the tabs, go to the \u201cprocesses\u201d tab, navigate down till you find \u201cWindows Explorer\u201d process in the list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Step 4.Click on the \u201cWindows Explorer\u201d process to select it. Once it is selected click on the \u201cRestart\u201d button in the bottom right corner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iseepassword.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image002.gif\" alt=\"Restart Windows Explorer\" width=\"550\" height=\"371\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Step 5.This would simply kill the Windows Explorer process and would definitely resolve the issue if it is not that critical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The system will restart before it brings the Taskbar back to its normal order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">But, if the process is still not working as per your expectation, better try out the next method to pull off the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Method #2: Re-registering the Taskbar Using Windows 10 PowerShell<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">If the Windows Taskbar Not Working, you still have another method to fix it. In this method you don\u2019t need to manipulate or mess with other system settings, all that you need to do is to give some command lines in the PowerShell, which is enough to do the job. If the issue is not that critical, it will restore the Taskbar to its working order like before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">So, what have you got to do is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Step 1.Go to the Windows start menu, and click on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Step 2.Type PowerShell, and from the result right-click on the PowerShell option to select \u201cRun as administrator\u201d to run PowerShell with admin privileges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iseepassword.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image004-1.jpg\" alt=\"PowerShell\" width=\"475\" height=\"756\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Step 3.Now, once the blue dialog box of PowerShell turns up, copy paste the following command lines:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><em>Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register \u201c$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest.xml\u201d}<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Step 4.The process will take a little time to execute successfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iseepassword.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image006.gif\" alt=\"PowerShell\" width=\"549\" height=\"340\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Step 5.Once the command line has been executed successfully, go to the following directory in the File Explorer, and replace your <strong><em>name<\/em><\/strong> with your User Account name. Before you do that, make sure that you enabled showing of hidden items in Windows File Explorer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong><em>C:\/Users\/name\/AppData\/Local\/<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Steps 6.Scroll down the folders in the list to locate the file named \u201cTileDataLayer\u201d and delete the folder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> If you are somehow unable to delete the folder, launch the <strong><em>services.msc <\/em><\/strong>to open the service manager. Locate the folder named \u201cTile Date model layer\u201d service and stop the process. Now go back to the previous folder in the file explorer, and try to delete the folder again. This time, it would surely be deleted easily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Now go back to the desktop and check if your taskbar is functioning properly or not. If the issue is not that serious, these aforementioned two methods would be sufficient enough to resolve the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">As you know the Windows 10 is introduced with certain changes which were not previously present the former Windows OS versions, thus it becomes quite difficult for the user to work efficiently with the problem persisting.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The methods mentioned above are not hard to apply. 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