[SOLVED] Taskbar Icons Disappear Until Hover

[Dididoo]

Hi,

When I click the show system tray button, internet or volume button on the taskbar, all icons in the taskbar except the Start, Cortana and cascade view buttons disappear. They only reappear when I hover over where the icons should be. Does anyone know why this could be happening? I'm thinking it has to do with explorer.exe refreshing, but have no idea where to go from here.

I have tried sfc /scannow and DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth. The problem does not occur in safe mode or in other users, so I think it must be something with my current user.

 

[Dididoo]

Yeah, the clean boot is the only thing that sort of discounts my theory. If the taskbar icons disappear again then the theory is debunked and I guess I'll come back here again haha.

The program is the one I linked above, there it has a link to the website where it can be downloaded. It's called WindowedBorderlessGaming. If you did want to recreate it, my guess is you would have to have it "Add Window (F3)", and just press F3 in the Windows File Explorer window. My theory is that I did that accidentally and it started hiding taskbar icons because it was trying to make explorer.exe borderless.