Windows 10: Windows 11 taskbar issues, and potential explorer memory leak

Hi,For the last week or so, I started having problems with the Windows 11 taskbar:I cannot expand tray icons by left-clicking the little arrow icon left-most tray icon.Time on the right is frozen.Apps are not shown in the taskbar if they are not pinned ones.I cannot right-click onto an empty area on the taskbar or the Windows icon, though right-clicking onto a pinned icon or the tray icons work.I still can left-click onto the Windows start icon.I can click into the search bar and use it.If I use EndTask to kill the explorer running the GUI shell from the Task Manager and relaunch it, every

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Windows 11 Memory Leak

Hi Josh. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

Try these fixes for Windows 11 Memory Leak

https://www.guidingtech.com/top-ways-to-fix-mem...

https://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-fix-windows-11-m...



https://beebom.com/how-fix-memory-leak-bad-ram-...



Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.

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Memory leak issue

The term "memory leak" means that an application fails to return all its RAM to the operating system when it exits. The leftover RAM is unusable to the operating system.

Step one is to identify the application that is leaking memory. Step two is to contact the application's developers and provide as much detailed data on the memory leak as you can. For example: which processes are still in RAM after the application exits
and how much RAM they occupy. Application developers never want their applications to leak memory and they will be grateful for the details you provide, particularly if they can replicate the leak on their own computers.

 

Possible Memory Leaks in Windows 10

A memory leak occurs when an application closes and fails to release all its RAM back to the operating system.

The first step in dealing with a memory leak is to determine which application is leaking memory.

The next step is to contact that application's technical support with complete details of the memory leak, since the developers will want to fix the problem ASAP.