Windows 10: Calendar and Mail icon on Taskbar

Very recently, my I noticed that my calendar and mail icons were not showing up on the taskbar, even though they were still fully functional. The icons displayed on the search screen or list of apps or microsoft store, just not in the taskbar. If I create a shortcut on my desktop, the image does work there as well. I think the issue may be that I downloaded google drive, decided I did not want it, and uninstalled it. I'm assuming that either google drive messed up the icon display unlikely, or that I messed up with uninstalling far more likely.

Additionally, when I open apps such as settings, or netflix, or itunes, the icons are not working on the taskbar despite proper functionality. I believe it has something to do with apps from microsoft or the microsoft store.

Please let me know if you have any solutions because this issue is very annoying.




***Original Title: Certain Taskbar icons not displaying***

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Mail, Calendar, & People Icons

With the new update to Windows 10 this Dec-2017, you must use the People Icon on the Taskbar in order to go the the Mail and Calendar apps. This requires multiple clicks unlike the prior version. Also, once inside the application, when you leave it access
another app, you have no quick step back to the mail/calendar app without going back though the People app. Unlike any other app which shows the open app on the taskbar, Mail does not. This is very inconvenient and in my view, a big step backward for Microsoft.
Why not have these Icons on the Taskbar as before?? Why not show them on the Taskbar once they have been opened?? Is there a potential Fix for this??

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

Duane

 

System Icons on taskbar

Hi,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Communities.

Are you referring to the clock system icon on the taskbar?

If so, I suggest you to follow the steps mentioned below:

• 
  Click on the search bar on the taskbar.
  
• 
  Type system icons.
  
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  Under Turn System Icons ON or OFF, turn On the Clock and check with the issue.
  

Hope it helps.

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)