Taskbar Icons not loading on start

[PiccoG]

As of a day or two ago my system has suddenly decided to not load my taskbar icons on startup. In order to get my icons to appear im forced to restart or disable then enable explorer.exe in task manager. Another work around is if i open an app then unpin it from my taskbar it will cause everything to load. This is a little annoying and would be great to have solved. If anyone has any idea whats going on it would be much appreciated! 

[jakkuh_t]

I get that sometimes as well. I'd be interested to know if someone has a fix other then what you stated ^

[Ruhel]

My sons Acer laptop did this after he installed some games from the MS Store. I couldn't fix it so restored to a recent restore point and it has worked since. 

[Enderman]

how did you install windows?

[Squirrel724]

My laptop does something similar to this where for about 10 seconds after it boots only the first 3 icons are visible. The other icons are still there and you can click them you just can't see them.

[Murasaki]

If restarting explorer works then as a workaround, you can launch a script at startup to restart explorer.

 

Restart_Explorer.bat

TASKKILL /F /IM explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
EXIT

Until we can find what the actual cause is 

[PiccoG]

Thanks for that work around. Definitely quicker than going into task manager. I've had Windows 10 installed for some time now but it was originally installed with the windows update from 8.1 pro when that free upgrade was going on. I have ccleaner run periodically and may have been the cause so possibly something in the registry was changed. 

 

I know that there are some other things that are not loading correctly from the boot and cbs log which I doubt have anything to do with this but ill put them here anyway.

 

Boot Log

BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\cdrom.sys

BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED \SystemRoot\System32\drivers\dxgkrnl.sys

BOOTLOG_NOT_LOADED \SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\NDProxy.sys

 

CBS log

Failed to internally open package. [HRESULT = 0x800f0805 - CBS_E_INVALID_PACKAGE]
2016-03-12 11:38:12, Info                  CBS    Failed to OpenPackage using worker session [HRESULT = 0x800f0805]

[GoodBytes]

You can take your system back in time, by doing a system restore. It should fix the problem.

Personal files should not be affected.

[PiccoG]

This is a bit embarrassing but I've never known how to do that or set that up. I've known that there are two types of system "backsups" but never knew which to use or how to set them up. I suppose now is a god time to learn. I'd appreciate anyone willing to explain the differences between them and how to go about it. Right now the only type of backup im using is SyncBack Free and am mirroring personal information to an external but would backup my system in a heartbeat.

[GoodBytes]

Very simple.

Right-click on the Start Menu. You have the "power menu" that will pop-up. Select System.

The System panel will open. From there, on the side column, click on System protection.

Then a panel will show.

 

On that panel you have a nice button System Restore, click on it, and a wizard will pop-up. Just follow it.

It will ask you at which point in time you want to take back the system from the restore points Windows created, pick it, and off it goes restoring your system.

 

Just in case something goes horrible wrong (it should not, but you never know), backup your stuff before.

 

[PiccoG]

Thank you Goodbytes I will definitely give this a go. Does anyone have anymore ideas what may be causing the taskbars odd behavior?

Also is there a way to restore only the drivers and programs that I want instead of restoring everything. I have new programs and drivers since then that will be lost.

[PiccoG]

I restored my pc to a prior state and the issue was resolved for a time. Then Windows forced some updates even though I have them disabled. Apparently security updated are mandatory and cant be turned off so it seems likely that this is what caused it. 

[PiccoG]

Update! After tinkering around some more I found that after I completely disabled my windows update service the taskbar loading problem stopped. Somehow its messing with the taskbar loading at boot. So if you dont mind not getting any more windows updates just turn that off and it should solve the problem.

[Murasaki]

5 hours ago, PiccoG said:

Update! After tinkering around some more I found that after I completely disabled my windows update service the taskbar loading problem stopped. Somehow its messing with the taskbar loading at boot. So if you dont mind not getting any more windows updates just turn that off and it should solve the problem.

I don't think you mentioned what version of 10 are you running, just for information.