Windows 10: Windows 10 jump lists broken by recent update *again*

The jump lists accessed by right-clicking pinned apps on the taskbar have stopped working after installing updates kb4569751 and kb4565351.

When I say "stopped working", I mean that I can still left-click on a pinned app e.g. File Explorer and it will open correctly, but if I right-click on the icon and then try to click on any of the links in the menu which appears, nothing works:

Clicking on the recent files or the Desktop/Documents/Pictures/etc. links shows an error message window saying "The item that you have selected is unavailable. It might have been moved, renamed or removed. Do you want to remove it from the list?" but the files and folders have not been deleted or changed in any way.

If I click on the app icon to open another instance of the app, the list simply disappears and the app does not launch.


This has happened to me before on this same installation of Windows 10 when Windows updated itself and the jump lists broke. I was unable to find a solution so I just lived with it for months, when suddenly it was fixed by some mysterious Windows Update, but I have no idea which one. That fix happened about a month ago.


Now it has happened again. I tried uninstalling the two updates see beginning of this post which were installed on the day the issue started, but that didn't fix the issue so I decided to try the upgrade to version 2004 of Windows 10, but even that hasn't solved the problem.


Jump Lists still work in "Safe Mode" interestingly which would suggest a driver conflict. I have updated to the newest video drivers from Nvidia, but no luck.


How can I fix this issue?


Thank you!

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Broken Jump Lists after upgrading to 2004

Hi, I am suddenly facing issues with the Jump Lists after upgrading to version 2004. For some reason, when I try to access recent files (that have not been moved), Windows thinks that the file is not there. This happens randomly to some files. I've attached an example of such an issue with using the Jump Lists for Notepad++. Anyone know a solution to this?

 

Windows 10 problem with duplicated icons in taskbar, broken Jump Lists


Hello,


I‘ve been recently having a problem with duplicated items in taskbar and broken Jump Lists. I‘m now using Windows 10 but this problem occurred in Windows 8.1 too but then it somehow fixed itself. Some programs that I pin to taskbar have a tendency to duplicate themselves when clicked on. For now, I‘ve noticed this behaviour only in Skype and Spotify but it‘s still very annoying since duplicate icons take valuable taskbar space and even more—make Jump Lists of those programs broken, meaning that you can still see tasks program developers provided but after you click them nothing happens.


I‘ve tried loads of times pinning, repinning, deleting whole User Pinned folder from %appdata%/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch, clearing Jump List folders manually and automatically with Command Prompt commands as suggested here with no luck. The only thing I did achieve was when I pinned Skype to taskbar in my other user account, then copied the newly created shortcut from Use Pinned folder to my User Pinned folder—this made Skype Jump Lists working but duplicate icon in taskbar remained.


I‘ve recently found a tutorial which may force taskbar to use only one icon per app but I can‘t check this right now as 7+ Taskbar Tweaker isn‘t yet officially available for Windows 10 users.


Thank you for taking your time and reading my message, any suggestions would be appreciated,





P. S. I don‘t know if this is related but I can‘t pin any Control Panel item to Quick Access whilst I can pin folders. Interesting side of this is that pinned Control Panel items appear in File Explorer's Jump List but after clicked I get a message that item is unavailable and that it might have been moved, renamed or removed.

 

cannot turn off jump list

Hi Rohit,

To address this concern, we suggest that you follow these steps on how to turn off the Jump Lists on Windows 10:

• Go to Start menu, search Settings, then press
  Enter.
• Click Personalization.
• Select Start.
• Turn off the Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or taskbar.

Let us know how it goes.

Regards.