Windows 11 Taskbar Not Displaying Notifications or hovering details

Question

A few hours ago I had a kitten jump on my keybaord and ever since my taskbar has been acting strange. I've tried the tips I've already seen online- restarting Windows Explorer, making sure notifcations are on, going into Services, etc- but nothing has worked so far. Not even completely shutting down my laptop and/or restarting it.

The issues I'm experiencing are so:

Firstly, I can hear a notification and see an app icon flash/show a badge, but it will NOT appear as a desktop notification (as in, I don't get a pop-up, but can still hear it and see the app icon change).
Secondly, when my active window is selected on an app (such as Firefox, or Task Manager), when I hover over my battery/audio/wifi icons on the taskbar I don't see the display I normally see (which is usually the connected wifi name, audio type/volume level, and battery percentage). The ONLY way I can get these hover details to appear is if I click on the taskbar and "tab out" of the current app.

Edit: I somehow figured out it was a preinstalled app (Omen Gaming Hub) that upon starting would trigger the issues. I uninstalled it and everything is working now (it was either that, or the two updates that followed after restarting my laptop after uninstalling).

Answer 1

Suggestions:

• Open Settings > System Focus Assist > make sure it's set to "Off"
• Go to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar Behaviors Uncheck “Automatically hide the taskbar”
• Go to Settings > System > Tablet
• Make sure it’s set to "Never use tablet mode"
• You may create another user account to check.
• Open Command Prompt as Admin and copy-paste the following commands: taskkill /f /im explorer.exe && start explorer.exe
• Reboot

Answer 2

I've seemed to have fixed the issue by uninstalling a preinstalled app my laptop came with (Omen Gaming Hub) that I never used because I noticed my system tray was working until it seemed to start up and flash its icon on the taskbar for a second before disappearing again (like it normally does)

I'm not sure why or how that was the issue, but I'm glad to have solved my own issue