Win 11 laptop taskbar now all black. START button not visible

x509 · Sunday at 11:49 PM

So what happened? :scream:

And how do repair the taskbar?

I'm typing this message from my still Win 10 desktop. Will be converted probably in early March.

The laptop is 2H23 but I can't tell the specific release version because I can't actually start any programs, except for hte programs for which I have desktop shortcuts.

Fabler2 · 2025-02-03T00:05:22-0500

CTRL + Shift + Esc should bring up Task Manager. Under Processes scroll down to Windows Explorer and right click to select restart.
Hopefully the taskbar will now load ok.

Berton · 2025-02-03T00:23:20-0500

Right-click the Desktop, go to Personalize then to colors, I like Custom and next Dark and third as Light.

antspants · 2025-02-03T01:17:03-0500

I was just reminded of a possible taskbar fix by member @Radical924

Press Win + X to open the context menu and choose Windows PowerShell (Admin).

Step 2: Type (or click to copy) this command –

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$ ($ _. InstallLocation) \ AppXManifest.xml”}

and press Enter.

You should be able to open your start menu via the Win key to open a browser and view Eleven Forum

glasskuter · 2025-02-03T01:56:48-0500

With anything to do with task bar or start menu, the first question I always ask is do you have any 3rd party app that alters the GUI installed? If so, either update it or uninstall it.

kelper · 2025-02-03T05:15:28-0500

Sometimes, all it takes is a reboot.

kelper · 2025-02-03T09:46:39-0500

You could press WIN+r and type winver then press enter.

x509 · 2025-02-03T22:58:13-0500

Fabler2 said:
CTRL + Shift + Esc should bring up Task Manager. Under Processes scroll down to Windows Explorer and right click to select restart.
Hopefully the taskbar will now load ok.

Unforuntately, even rebooting didn't fix the problem. But thanks for the reply.

x509 · 2025-02-03T22:59:40-0500

Berton said:
Right-click the Desktop, go to Personalize then to colors, I like Custom and next Dark and third as Light.

View attachment 124111

This didn't work either, but thanks.

krism · 2025-02-03T23:25:45-0500

Just noticed this - here are my settings - hth...

x509 · 2025-02-03T23:34:27-0500

All is OK now. I played around a bit with themes, andwhen I restored one of the default themes, the task bar was visible again.

krism · 2025-02-03T23:42:03-0500

YES!!! I had a problem recently where when I was typing a comment in to Youtube, It was typing black on black. I kept fiddling around with those things and suddenly it worked. Think of how much time computers save us!!!

Berton · 2025-02-04T00:47:00-0500

krism said:
Think of how much time computers save us!!!

About the same amount as paper and printing they were supposed to save us back in the late '80s and 90s.

krism · 2025-02-04T00:51:42-0500

Berton said:
About the same amount as paper and printing they were supposed to save us back in the late '80s and 90s.

Yes! that was always the joke - We would get a faster machine and they immediately start designing more extensive programs to bog it down. it's fun!!!

Faster printers/chains? Oooo we can print all this every week now!!!

Edit: "B = Byte, b = bit, 8 bits = 1 Byte." and 4 bits is a nibble.

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