FYI - also known as an undocumented feature report. When I install a new application and launch it, its icon appears in the taskbar.

If I right-click it and pin it to the taskbar, the icon dissapears, although if I hover my cursor over where it was, it's caption (name of app) appears. I guess the icon becomes transparent? It's apparently still there; it's just not visible.

If I close the application, its icon reappears and I can drag it to wherever I want. Launching it again its icon remains visible. 

This is repeatable and I've repeated this test four times with four different applications with the exact same result each time.

Anyone else seeing this? I'm running a fully updated version of Windows 11 Pro 64-bit. 

I see similar things. Pinning not working. Dragging icons not always possible. Icons moving to random places. Icons shown twice or triple and then suddenly disappear again. 

Hi

Another bug

I set my taskbar to top, but in the last couple of days, it is 'reserving' the area for the task bar at the bottom of the screen which I can 't use of any app. I also can't drag windows down into this bottom ghost bar and windows wont expand over it manually or automatically.

Amazing work guys, this is the feature I've been needing for my workflow in Windows 11 before I pulled the trigger.

Could someone confirm if taskbar items stack like below? As in using 2 lines of the taskbar when ungrouped?

All one single line. 

You can stretch the taskbar to as many lines as you want (upto half your screen height)

I signed out of my usual windows account (A) and into another account (. (both task bars were on the bottom)

Then logged out of that account ( and back into my normal windows account (A).

Somehow that caused my taskbar on the right screen to move to the top of the screen. and it's covering the top menu bar of Excel.

Beta version 1.16

Those emojis are supposed to be a B

tlveik

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I signed out of my usual windows account (A) and into another account ( . (both task bars were on the bottom)

Then logged out of that account ( and back into my normal windows account (A).

Somehow that caused my taskbar on the right screen to move to the top of the screen. and it's covering the top menu bar of Excel.

Beta version 1.16

Reduced 43%

Original 1920 x 540

There was a problem with the taskbar appearing in the wrong place resolved in beta 1.17.

Note that you should also check settings to ensure the taskbar hasn't been set to the top on a secondary which can also be the case.

Please implement the ability to make the task bar vertical if that is now possible.

I see people using 1.17.  Does the update feature in the beta bring me up from 1.16 or do I need to download again?

You'll have to download 1.17 from your account

page . Reboot. 

Reboot the PC?

Tipp:

This is not absolutely necessary! Start the task manager if it still starts/opens and from the top menu from "File" -> "Run new task" and enter "Explorer.exe" in the new window and confirm with "Enter". In most cases, your usual interface with the start button, taskbar, desktop icons and desktop background is rebuilt after a few seconds.

However, if there is a profound error and your interface does not return, you can always restart the PC.

At the end of the setup you're told by the installer to reboot the pc. If this is not necessary, then why this message. Why not an automatic restart of the Explorer.exe process?

In many cases it is not necessary to restart the computer. A restart would only be mandatory for drivers that are anchored/exchanged in the system! GUI-related tools such as START11 are often sufficient to rebuild the user interface by restarting the "Explorer.exe" system service.

And if, contrary to expectations, something still bugs, you can always restart the PC   

It's just my very personal experience.

The full (recommended) reboot of the system is just a safe bet from the developer...