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Icons in taskbar went transparent after switching virtual desktops

Quite often after switching between virtual desktops some icons in taskbar become transparent. Reinstalling drivers, updating, restarting Explorer did not help.

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Rota - MSFT

Hello，Renat Mukhametzianov

Thank you for posting in the Microsoft community.

Regarding your question about the icons in the taskbar becoming transparent after switching virtual desktops, we Windows 11 23H2 22631.3155 tested and reproduced the issue in the Windows 11 23H2 22631.3155 release, and it may indeed be a bug that exists, and Microsoft takes everyone's experience very seriously, and we've logged the issue, while you can submit your ideas and suggestions through the Feedback Hub, and the development team will regularly review submissions for ideas or fixes.

Please share the feedback link here after submitting as it will allow others on the forum to vote for your submission, including me. More votes will lead to more visibility and higher priority to the development team.

Best Regards，

Rota Ye |Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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Renat Mukhametzianov

Thank you for your response! Here's link to my feedback

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Cosmohide

We it will be fixed???

I face this bugs a lot of months ago and still no update or workaround?

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海山大包

Any updates?

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AllenMcWongahey

MICROSOFT, when are you going to FIX this issue?!?!?

This has been occurring for at least SIX MONTHS!!

There is NO excuse for you not having fixed this before now!

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Pavel Matějek

Workaround:

1. Create C:\

@echo off
powershell -Command "$shell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application; $shell.MinimizeAll(); Start-Sleep -Seconds 2; $shell.UndoMinimizeAll();"
exit

2. Make shortcut to aaa.bat in C:\Users\

3. Whenever you face issue with icons in taskbar becoming transparent, press Win key > type in "aaa" > press Enter. Script will minimize all apps to taskbar, icons will become visible, script will restore apps back to their original position.

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海山大包

Windows 11 24H2 still has this problem. what a pity!

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杰高1

thx for answering, but no use

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杰高1

still a problem today

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Today, after updating Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Insider Preview (10.0.26120.2510) (KB5048780) on the preview version DEV channel, it has been working normally so far.

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