Windows 8.1 Taskbar issues

[Ikaros18]

So, a couple of months ago I started noticing that my windows taskbar had a lot of issues, it now freezes whenever and pretty frequently, and it is making me immensely frustrated. For example, I would be watching a video and if I wanted to open steam, the taskbar would just freeze and I'd have to continuously click on it to let it refresh, and even that it would still freeze. Please help.

[Danielh90]

So, a couple of months ago I started noticing that my windows taskbar had a lot of issues, it now freezes whenever and pretty frequently, and it is making me immensely frustrated. For example, I would be watching a video and if I wanted to open steam, the taskbar would just freeze and I'd have to continuously click on it to let it refresh, and even that it would still freeze. Please help.

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[JaytechGaming]

So, a couple of months ago I started noticing that my windows taskbar had a lot of issues, it now freezes whenever and pretty frequently, and it is making me immensely frustrated. For example, I would be watching a video and if I wanted to open steam, the taskbar would just freeze and I'd have to continuously click on it to let it refresh, and even that it would still freeze. Please help.

How many programs/what programs do you tend to have open at once?

How much RAM do you have installed in your computer?

Other PC specs?

This sounds like the typical opening of too many programs to the point that the system starts to write the cache file on the HDD instead of the system RAM.

[TDP_Equinox]

Ram usage?
Test your hard drive?
Run "SFC /Scannow" in an Admin CMD.

Try a restore point?

[vembutech]

Hi,

I suggest you can refer to the following method to reset icon cache.

• 1. Open Command Prompt (Admin).
  
• 2. Type the following commands one by one.
  

[vembutech]

The steps have been continued from the previous post. check out following commands

 

taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe

cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
attrib -h IconCache.db
del IconCache.db
start explorer

[Ikaros18]

How many programs/what programs do you tend to have open at once?

How much RAM do you have installed in your computer?

Other PC specs?

This sounds like the typical opening of too many programs to the point that the system starts to write the cache file on the HDD instead of the system RAM.

I usually have 3~4 programs open at once, 16GBs of RAM, i5 4670k, gtx780

[Ikaros18]

Ram usage?

Test your hard drive?

Run "SFC /Scannow" in an Admin CMD.

Try a restore point?

I don't think I have any restore points sadly I usually use like 3~7 GBs

[Ikaros18]

 

The steps have been continued from the previous post. check out following commands

 

taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe

cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local

attrib -h IconCache.db

del IconCache.db

start explorer

 

Just did that, will see if it works  

[TDP_Equinox]

I don't think I have any restore points sadly I usually use like 3~7 GBs

Do and SFC /Scannow, and also

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