Windows 10: Start/Task Bar Issues with Shutdown/Restart, Restart, Task Bar and Short Cut Icons

I'll try to make this as short as possible and properly describe my issue.


1. When I shut down my HP desktop and restart, all shortcut icons and task bar icons show up and everything works EXCEPT Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. If I open either of them from that task bar or shortcut icon, and hover my pointer over the task bar icon the connected screen shows up as a thumbnail but does NOT expand to the full screen on my Dell monitor. I reverted to using Microsoft Edge and it works fine.


2. When I simply restart the desktop only one shortcut icon shows up on the main screen and that is one connected to a short video I received some time ago that does NOT show up on shutdown/restart. No other icons appear normally there are nearly 2 dozen. The ONLY task bar icons that work properly are those for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Microsoft Edge does not work and no other icons on the task bar, including simple things like the calculator, do not work. The screens do appear as thumbnails above the task bar icons but will not show full windows on my monitor.


Can someone help?


I'm using Windows 10 Home Version 20H2, OS build 19042.746.


Thanks,

Danny

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