Windows 10: Taskbar not populating

Greetings,

I have a user whose Office shortcuts in the taskbar are not persistent. I use an AutoIt script to recreate the shortcuts if they are missing. The shortcuts appear in the folder (%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar) but are not populated to the taskbar, even after she logs off and back on. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.



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Build 14271 - dual display - taskbar problem with auto hide on

Just been upgraded to 14271 and now the taskbar on my laptop display is blank if I have auto hide turned on. The taskbar top edge is shown but the actual desktop is visible through the taskbar area and there are no icons displayed. The taskbar on the
second display is populated properly. Is there a fix please?

 

Update KB4054517 causes constant application crashes.

UPDATE:

I believe I found an out. I went into my Taskbar settings and enabled and disabled "People" ... after doing that the people icon stopped trying to populate on my taskbar and the desktop stops crashing/restarting.

 

You can try to restart Explorer.exe

1.Open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc keys simultaneously.
2. Once you have it open, click on File and then Run New Task or New Task (Run).
3. Type in explorer.exe and press Enter.
This will restart the explorer process and hopefully get you back your taskbar

 

Thanks for the reply, Daikin990. I can try that when I'm able, but I'm not hopeful. I've already had the user log off and back on again which should have restarted Windows Explorer without satisfaction. The task bar is displayed, just the shortcuts aren't.