Fix: Taskbar not Working in Windows 10
Solution 1 – Restart Windows Explorer Before we get to some ‘system-messing’ solutions that include Command Prompt and PowerShell, let’s try one simpler. Simple restart of the Windows Explorer will restore the functionality of taskbar, and other user interface features, so if your taskbar problem is not that serious, this solution should work just fine. Here’s exactly what you need to do: Press ctrl + alt + DEL and choose Task Manager Under Windows Processes, find Windows Explorer, right-click on it and hit End process
The task will re-launch itself after a couple of moments, so check if everything is okay with your taskbar now, after you restarted the Windows Explorer
Solution 2 – Perform a PowerShell fix Right-click on the Start Menu button and choose Command Prompt (Admin) In the Command Prompt enter the following command and press Enter: PowerShell Now paste the following command in the Administrator: Windows PowerShell window and press Enter key: Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
Now, close PowerShell, and go to the following folder: C:/Users/name/AppData/Local/ Delete TileDataLayer folder Now check if your taskbar is working, you don’t even have to restart your computer
That’s all for this article, I hope at least one of these two solutions helped you to restore the functionality of your taskbar. If you have any comments, questions, or maybe some other solution for this problem that I didn’t manage to find, please write that down in the comments section below, we and our readers would love to read it. Also, if you have any other Windows 10-related issues you can check for the solution in our Windows 10 Fix section.