Windows 10: The taskbar keeps crashing in Windows 11, despite scans showing hard disc is ok

My Windows 11 has become unstable; the taskbar crashes very easily/often, when it does it takes many things with it eg file explorer, firefox, I then have to reboot. After reboot, it’s usable for some time.I’m currently doing a workaround - never touch the taskbar, only a few file-explorer windows open.But it’s really weak. I don’t have any clarity on why this has begun happening. Crash description:click on taskbartaskbar itself then always show spinning icon; clock never updatestypically all file-explorer windows also crashwhen alt-tab to switch app, can see many apps' icons have

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Regions speech not available despite correct language pack install

The issue still remains unresolved, as English (Australia) simply does not show up in the list despite following all suggested steps to date (which I had done previously)

 

Hard Drive not Showing

Hi Lori,

Thank you for posting back.

• How are you connecting the Hard drive to your computer?
• Have you tried connecting the hard drive to a different computer and check if it works?

It's possible that your USB drivers are corrupt. I suggest you to try the following steps and check.

• Press Windows Key +R and type
  devmgmt.msc to open Device manager.
• Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers
  at the left bottom.
• Right-click the first USB controller under Universal Serial Bus controllers, and then click on
  Uninstall to remove it.
• Repeat these steps for the entire USB controller under Universal Serial Bus controllers.
• Restart the computer. After the computer starts, Windows will automatically scan for hardware changes and reinstall all the USB controllers that you uninstalled.

Keep us posted with the status of the issue to assist you further.

Thank you.

 

Freezing desktop and taskbar icons and freezing applications

Hi

Followed the suggested steps.
Thought it was working ok but it's locked again
Back to showing the same symptoms so sadly, I don't think I'm any further on

Any other suggestions?

Can't help feeling like it's either missing a file or something key is corrupted

Nothing shows up via Seagate, scandisc, virus scans (mcafee), malwarebytes
Still also seems to be an issue in safemode

Wondering where to go next...

Extreme but I'm thinking about formatting and starting again
Never done that before though so any useful links to a step-by-step approach would be useful
Including windows 10

I do not have a Windows 10 disc - only a windows 8 that came with my PC
I installed 10 for free some time ago by following a link when MS were really pushing windows 10

Thanks

Damian