Taskbar Toolbars disappear

spjr

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My Taskbar Toolbars disappear.
I added the Address toolbar to the taskbar.
This constantly disappears and I have to add it again. I once lost my shortcuts in the address toolbar. fortunately I back up the registry setting and restored them.
I also lose my New Toolbar I created following the direction on this Forum to create a Start Menu.
This happens a least once a week or more and I have to restore them.

What is causing this?
How can I prevent it?

Thanks
 

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Just a thought: Using aggressive cleaning applications sometimes are the culprit. Not slammin here but Glary Utilities, for example, is a nasty one unless you set preferences carefully.
 

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    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavillion
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    Tablet - Windows 10 Home
Good point Edwin. Especially since it's happening about once a week as if it was on a schedule by a program like this.
 

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System One

  • OS
    64-bit Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
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    Custom self built
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
Same thing happening to me

Windows 8.1

Same thing happening to me; toolbar just keeps disappearing randomly. It's not that it's hidden .. it just gets turned 'off'. Having to right-click and adding the toolbar all over again and dragging and arranging - major headache. MS .. what's up?
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
I've been having this same problem (intermittent missing toolbars) for months on my primary system (Dell M4800, Windows 8.1 Pro), and just this past week I've seen it for the first time on a Surface Pro 2 (Win 8.1 Pro). On my M4800 it seems that if I wait a couple of minutes before logging into Windows (wait until the disk activity light quiets down which should indicate all services and such have started) then I usually do *NOT* have a problem and the toolbars are there. However, logging in as soon as possible seems more likely to lead to missing toolbars. When they aren't there, I wait until the Windows desktop is fully initialized and all expected System Tray icons are visible. Then I bring up the Task Manager, locate the Windows Explorer task and restart it. Instantly my (two - Quick Launch and a replacement Start menu) toolbars appear, and the rest of the Taskbar/System Tray also remains (actually redraws) unchanged.) I'd be curious to know if anyone else has observed (or can look for) a correlation between the disappearance of toolbars and how soon after system boot that you are signing in.

I know it doesn't make sense, but I have a weak working theory as to what might be going on, and an observation from the past that maybe related. First, the observation:

In prior versions of Windows (could be Win 7, could be Vista, could be XP - I'm not sure...) I've noticed a very infrequent behavior. I've always used the Quick Launch toolbar for my heavily used apps. Immediately after login it's not unusual for me to click on a Quick Launch icon. When I do this, usually the related application will load, albeit sooner or later - depending on the system I'm using and how snappy it is. However, what's interesting is that on rare occasion the application never loads. Sometimes I get impatient and click again, and then multiple instances load. But sometimes I'll click twice and wait, and still nothing loads! However, if I wait another minute or so (until the system seems to be less busy) then clicking on the same icon loads the related app immediately. This is what leads me to my working theory for those pesky missing toolbars:

I wonder if there are some desktop initialization actions which Windows Explorer handles that can time out "silently" - that is, without displaying an error? What I've described in the previous paragraph seems to be an example of this behavior. And perhaps the missing toolbars is another manifestation of the same issue?

Anyone have any thoughts on this?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell M4800
    CPU
    i7
Disappearing Address Tool Bar on the Taskbar.
The Tool bar disappearing act had stopped until recently. MS put out a big update and after installing that the magician was up to his old tricks. I will try to wait before logging on and to see what happens.
Thanks for the suggestions.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    Computer type
    Tablet
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Microsoft Surface Pro
    CPU
    i5 @ 1.7 GHz
    Memory
    4 GB RAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD Graphics 4000
    Browser
    IE 10
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
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