Windows Taskbar Frozen

Please try the following methods below.

**Restart Windows Explorer

Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager.

Select the Processes tab.

Scroll down and look for Windows Explorer

Right click then select Restart.

**Please try to run SFC and DISM to check for any system errors and corrupted files.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/402652...

After that, restart your computer

Note: You can open command prompt by doing this,

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager then click File

Select "Run new task" then type: cmd

Make sure to put a check mark on the "Create this task with administrative privileges" box

Continue with the commands within the link above.

**Repair all Windows apps via PowerShell

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager then click File

Select "Run new task" then type: powershell

Make sure to put a check mark on the "Create this task with administrative privileges" box

Copy and paste the command below one at a time then press Enter. Please ignore the red errors and let the process complete.

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Windows.ShellExperienceHost | foreach {Add-AppxPackage -register "$($_. InstallLocation)\appxmanifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode}

Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_. InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Restart your computer

Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.

Kind regards,

John DeV

Independent Advisor

The Windows 11 taskbar was freezing to me when I kept the taskbar active on all screens. In my case I have three screens. The problem was only resolved when I disabled the "Show My Taskbar On All Displays" option in Personalization > Taskbar. After that the problem did not occur anymore.

This is a glitch from Win and there is no work around it, I tried everything and none of them is working the only way is to restart your PC or kill the explorer and rerun it.

you can save this script as a .bat file and save it on your desktop to run it.

@echo off

:: Kill explorer.exe

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

:: Start explorer.exe

start explorer.exe

Try this:

In my case,

a Windows 11 update added and turned ON by default the following:

Right-click-desktop > Personalize > Task Bar > "Copilot in Windows (preview)".

I moved the slider from ON to OFF.

After months straight of this repetitive freezing issue (including system time freezing) and all silently, this one change on my pc fixed it instantly.

============== My Experience

I have had this exact problem since about the time of this original post. Exactly as described. Yes every few minutes, all day, every day. Taskbar froze - I have it on all monitors (2) - and would do so silently. Silently meaning it would freeze without audio/video and I would keep going otherwise on the monitors without anything else until I just happened to notice e.g. my pc clock time in the taskbar shows three hours ago! Thanks to Echo sitting to my left I guess. It required me to click a 2ND time and it would auto-restart it all (to black-screens both monitors then refreshes all taskbar icons and they all work > for a few minutes then it freezes again in a never ending loop!).

I tried all the other - some copy-pasted - advice in this (and other) discussions. I have what I would call a nice (above average) ROG computer. Nothing else is "broken". This drove me crazy.

Until finally, I figured it out.

A Windows 11 update added and turned ON by default the following:

Right-click-desktop > Personalize > Task Bar > "Copilot in Windows (preview)".

I moved the slider from ON to OFF, and restarted computer.

Once I did this, not one bit of freeze since.

I run a nice pc, a ROG, with no issues otherwise. Windows Copilot - an AI related item I was not made specifically aware of -- I would have preferred Windows Updates had not set it quietly at "default ON". Taskbar freezes or not.

**ADDING my July 21, 2024 post and through 8/28/24 today, my toolbar has not crashed once, ever again.

It was working fine like 3 days ago. Suddenly it just froze, and I haven't made any changes.