Windows 10: Taskbar Disappeared and it's not hidden

I have a Windows Surface Laptop 2 just over a year old. My Taskbar has decided to disappear auto hide is not activted. When I log on, my display is black, however, I can still see my mouse cursor moving. To get the display to work agian, I switch user sign-on to a guest user, and then switch back to my regular user Admin and the display sometimes comes back - but the task bar still doesn't come back. The guest user display and task bar is fine. I've checked for any Windows updates, and I've re-booted numerous times. Does anyone know what I can do next? Thanks, Michael

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Taskbar hidden behind windows

Hello, sookie(2)

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

There are a few possible solutions to fix the taskbar hidden behind windows issue. Here are some of them:

• Check your taskbar settings and make sure that the auto-hide feature is turned off. This feature can cause the taskbar to disappear when you move your mouse over a maximized window. To turn off auto-hide, press and hold (or right-click) any empty space on the taskbar, and select Taskbar settings.
  

• Change your display resolution to an appropriate one for your monitor. Sometimes, the taskbar can be hidden if the resolution is too high or too low for your screen size.
  

• Resize the window to a non-maximized state. This can be done by clicking and dragging the window's edges.
  

• If you are using a second monitor or a projector, the taskbar may be hidden on one of the screens. To fix this, press Windows + P on your keyboard and select PC screen only from the sidebar. This will make your primary screen the only one that displays your desktop.
  

Feel free to ask if you have any further concerns.

Best regards

Yuhao Li

Microsoft Community Technical Support

 

Taskbar system/app icons hidden/disappear, icons limited?

Thanks for the suggestion, really hoping it's something small like this that can resolve this. I've long uninstalled Winaero Tweaker -- and it had no tweaks for the taskbar icons.

So regardless of how I display the taskbar icons, the bumped off ones (right most, farthest) become hidden. In this case, I stretched it out to two rows tall with all icons displayed and the Power and Network icons still both get bumped off *Sad




Basically what I previously observed -- it's almost as if there is a limit of 4-5 icons that can be displayed, and each system app exceeding it is pushed out or "hidden". Yet It's not a space constraint -- all the icons can be displayed -- just not the ones that've been forced into this hidden mode. In this case, the ones I care about *Sad

 

Taskbar system/app icons hidden/disappear, icons limited?

Very odd behavior for the past several days, would appreciate any input.

My taskbar icons, particularly the system icons (Network, Power, Volume) are disappearing/remaining hidden on their own. It's essentially like a carousel, where if I enable an icon in "Settings > Taskbar > Select which icons...", the one farthest to the right becomes hidden. Please see attached screen capture (or linked here)

Basically when I disenable & enable, say, Volume, the right-most icon gets bumped into hidden -- Network or Power, in the below screenshot. The affected icons remain hidden until I go back into Settings and enable it -- it does not re-appear even if I click on the upwards arrow to expand, nor if I choose "Always show all icons..."

What I've tried thus far, from helpful Tenforums archived posts:

• Alternate between Tablet and Desktop mode
• Scannow /sfc (no errors)
• Restore system (attempted one from 2 days and 2 weeks ago)
• Registry removal of any IconStreams/PastIconStreams (only IconStreams was present)
• Reinstall Windows with in-place upgrade ISO from Media Creation Tool

The only program that I imagine might have done something like this is Winaero Tweaker, which I installed last week to add some folder links to my "Quick access", so I tried uninstalling, but sadly, no effect.

Would really appreciate any tips. Hopefully it's something silly, as I'd much rather not do a Refresh and have reinstall my various apps/programs.

Thanks!