Windows 10: File Explorer from taskbar not responding/crashing

Purchased new PC with Windows 10 about a month ago. Did not have any problems until few days ago: File Explorer shortcut on the taskbar is not responding– after clicking the icon, it will just not open the window at all. after 5 seconds or so the screen blinks once as if it crashes then … Read more

Icon in my taskbar becomes corrupt on execution

I have a program that seems to have a valid icon in my task bar, but when I go to execute the program a bad/missing/corrupt (place holder) icon is displayed. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the program. I even tried to delete the local icon cache. Additionally, I tried to change the bit depth to 16 bits … Read more

Tray icon area is missing/invisible, icons locked on Windows 10

Since today I got the problem that my whole tray icon area is empty/missing/invisible. The only thing I see is the notification area icon and my locale settings: Interestingly, the icons are completely locked/greyed out in the settings. I can’t re-enable them: Even icons from custom applications don’t show up. I already followed this and … Read more

Windows TaskBar doesn’t show new items

Since Windows 7(mayne Vista too) I have a problem with pinning an item to taskbar. The path to taskbar is %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar, but adding either .bat, .exe, or even pasting a .lnk there manually doesn’t show anything new on the taskbar even after reboot. Pasting to Default user’s location solves nothing. Why is … Read more