Hi AngryFinn,
I am Sumit, an Independent Advisor here to assist you.
Right-click the Taskbar>News and Interests>Turn off.
Does that help?
Taskbar problems kb-5003214
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Anonymous
Hi,
After installing kb5003214( build 19043.1023) the taskbar went nuts on one of my units, a Surface Book 2. The Lenovo desktop survived.
Sytem icons are there at start up but as soon as starting any application they disappear.
Pinned app icons stay as they should.
After a while the system icons re-appear but then doubled with copies of the pinned icons on top. These disappear when hoovering with pointer, and after a short while also the system icons are gone again.
Any good suggestions on this one?
Have removed the update.
Running on Insider, now on OS19043.985
Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures
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Anonymous
2021-05-28T09:14:42+00:00 Hi Sumit,
Did that when I first saw it. No change.
Have also done a re-installation of the up-date just in case it was corrupt but that did not do any good either.
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Sumit D - IA 151K Reputation points Independent Advisor2021-05-28T09:17:29+00:00 Thanks, some people reported success with the same. Rest assured this is reported by multiple people.
Do you have Valorant installed?
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Anonymous
2021-05-28T09:27:05+00:00 Hi Sumit,
No Valorant in the machine.
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Sumit D - IA 151K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2021-05-28T11:32:03+00:00 I am seeing a variety of cases similar to your issue(most of them in the last 2 days), so we can just continue hit and trial until succeed.
The next step is to uninstall the 21H1 enablement package.
How to uninstall Windows 10 21H1
https://www.yourwindowsguide.com/2021/05/uninst...
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