Windows 10: Taskbar icons hidden until new program is pinned

I've read many posts about hidden icons or icons showing wrong images etc, but my problem seem to be different from others.
When I log on after a reboot, I only see the search icon and the Task View icon in the task bar even though I have several other programs pinned.
If I open a pinned program I see it in the task bar and have the option to unpin the r-click menu, but if I close it, the icon disappears again.
If I open a program that is not pinned, and I r-click and pin the program, the task bar seems to 'refresh' and suddenly I see all my pinned programs in the task bar - and they all work when clicking on them.

Can anyone tell me how I can make the task bar show the pinned programs without having to pin a new program after every reboot?

Thanks in advance *Smile

:)

 

Pinning programs to the taskbar

When I pin a program to the taskbar, it does it correctly and the icon is visible and clickable. However, when I click the icon to run the program, the program opens but two icons now become visible on the taskbar: the original pinned program and the
running program. It does this with Firefox, Musicbee, and almost all of the programs that I pin. Does anyone have a possible solution to this?

 

adding new printer icon to taskbar in Windows 10

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Hello Maothor, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

This may be corrupted. If you like, use the tutorial below to reset and clear all pinned items on the taskbar. Afterwards, pin your items back to the taskbar to see if they will work properly now.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

 

Running the commands in the .bat file did delete the files and the registry entries, but that didn't solve the problem for me unfortunately *Sad

 

Please go ahead and post a screenshot showing this to help ID what it may be.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...en-forums.html

For now, you could also go ahead and rebuild the icon cache to clear any possible corruption with it.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...dows-10-a.html

 

I managed to solve the problem, and thought I'd share the solution.
I had moved the location of the Desktop folder to a network disk, and for some reason that caused the problem - changing the location of the Desktop folder to the local disk fixed the problem - the pinned icons now show up in the taskbar.
If anyone can explain why this solved my problem, I'd like to hear about it as it does not make sense to me, since the information about pinned programs is stored somewhere in Registry and in a subfolder to the AppData folder which always resided on my local disk.

 

Great news.

I'm not sure why either, but moving the desktop folder usually does cause unknown issues.

 

Thanks for taking the time to help *Smile