Task bar stopped unclickable with no icons?

DigitalHD

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Dec 30, 2016
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A few days ago I booted my PC and the taskbar had no Icons, so I clicked on the search bar and windows button but neither have any effect. "Task View" (or Win + Tab) works still. I cannot pin items to taskbar anymore and when on YouTube, it is still visible. Only when playing games on the full-screen view allow for it to be not visible.
 
Solution
Lets get you to command prompt and run SFC/DISM to see if they help.

What happens if you press Win key + X? Does it show am menu? If it does, choose command prompt (Admin)

Or

Does Ctrl Alt Del produce the lock screen? click task manager. In task manager choose file/run new task. Type CMD and before pressing OK, tick create this task with administrative privileges

if either of those worked, try this:
type SFC /scannow and press enter
once its complete, copy/paste this into same window - or if you type it, make sure spacing is right as it won't work otherwise
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

SFC cleans and fixes system files, DISM cleans the folder that SFC uses to fix the files, so if SFC...
Lets get you to command prompt and run SFC/DISM to see if they help.

What happens if you press Win key + X? Does it show am menu? If it does, choose command prompt (Admin)

Or

Does Ctrl Alt Del produce the lock screen? click task manager. In task manager choose file/run new task. Type CMD and before pressing OK, tick create this task with administrative privileges

if either of those worked, try this:
type SFC /scannow and press enter
once its complete, copy/paste this into same window - or if you type it, make sure spacing is right as it won't work otherwise
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

SFC cleans and fixes system files, DISM cleans the folder that SFC uses to fix the files, so if SFC found files it couldn't fix before, try again and retart PC
 
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