It’s like they purposely broke the taskbar so you would enable the feature.” Although that runs against the grain of what everyone else is reporting, namely that the gremlins manifest if the feature is enabled – not disabled.Ĭlearly enough, there’s an issue of some kind here, and hopefully it’s one Microsoft can fix before this preview update is rolled out as the June cumulative update.
Worryingly, another Reddit user suggests that: “News and interests causes this when its disabled. I’m assuming it’s because it forces the taskbar to be redrawn.” After the taskbar is redrawn, toggle the setting again. Toggle the setting for ‘Use small taskbar buttons’. However, there are also reports claiming that just turning off the News widget on the taskbar will cure the icon corruption issues, a much simpler fix.Ī possible workaround is described by ‘old_old_geek’ on Reddit: “After booting has finished, right click on the taskbar and select Taskbar settings. Several potential easy fixes for the issue have been pointed out though, and one we’ve already mentioned: simply uninstall KB5003214. Of course, preview updates are still in testing, so it’s not surprising that there might be problems – though these sound like some particularly frustrating niggles to still be left in at this point. There are also some users experiencing display scaling issues which could be related to KB5003214, and again there’s a thread on Reddit where folks are complaining about the icon for the new feature looking fuzzy or out of focus. Sometimes, the modern apps in Windows 10 can cause incompatibility issues with the taskbar and make it unclickable. Windows 10 Anniversary and later: I’ve observed that when in the proper mode (ex: desktop or tablet) and the auto hide doesn’t work, often clicking automatically hide taskbar in (desktop and tablet) mode both will get rid of the problem with the taskbar not appearing properly. A denizen of Reddit also reported ‘graphical issues’ with the taskbar’s system tray being messed up, or even vanishing entirely. Re-register Taskbar with PowerShell Command.