Icon Taskbar Windows 11

[Ahmend Studioz]

Startingtoday, I tried to open Dropbox that is pinned to the taskbar. It wouldn't open. I opened the program folder and double-clicked on the .exe file. It also would not open Dropbox. I uninstalled and reinstalled with same issue. I can open it from a desktop icon, but why will it not open from the executable file in the program folder which means I cannot pin it to the taskbar. I'm running Windows 11 Pro 23H2 with latest build.

Hi Jay, I think I fixed it. The attached photo shows the target path of the icon pinned to taskbar that will not open. Start menu icon had no properties. I then went to the desktop icon that will open the program and replaced the taskbar icon target with the path C:\Users\robch\Dropbox

which will now open the program from the taskbar. The executable icon in the program folder remains as per the attached photo. Should I change the target or just leave it as is? At least I can open and use the program now from the taskbar icon.

I am experiencing the same issue on windows 10 laptop. Everything on my laptop is up to date. I have no issue with opening the app on my Samsung tablet or my android phone. This started just the other day. I do the majority of my work on my laptop and then access it on my tablet or phone. If this isn't solved, then there is no point in using Dropbox.

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I just did an advanced reinstallation with the same result. The folder will opn using the desktop icon, but not from clicking the executable in the program folder which means I cannot open the program from the taskbar. Could a very recent update to Windows 11 have caused this? It just started within the last week and I've been using Dropbox for years.

Thanks for the info. Could you try right clicking the taskbar icon and then Properties, and likewise with the Dropbox icon in the start menu, and let me know what the executable path is showing up as? A screenshot of this would help greatly.

I fired my laptop up a couple of days ago and I noticed that the dropbox icon in the taskbar was missing. I checked task manager and dropbox is running theres just no icon and if I kill the task and double click on the dropbox exe it loads the app but does not show the Icon so I am unable to check my settings or anything else. Oddly enough it is still working fine on my main desktop.

Also, when I launch the installer, after it has downloaded the dropbox files via the installer it doesn't actually launch the install process to let me input my user account or link my files but if I check task manager it shows that dropbox.exe is running.

In my case the dropbox icon was set to "on" and I toggled it off. After exiting the dialog, I had my dropbox icon back in the "show hidden icons" area. I repeated the above and toggled the dropbox icon back to "on" and now it is back in my systray where it belongs.

Solution: as of Sep 15 2018, right click on taskbar in windows, select "Taskbar settings," and scroll down to section "Notification Area," and select "Select which Icons Appear on the Taskbar." here you should see DROPBOX and can turn it on!

I'm having the same problem as above. I have been using dropbox for years untill this evening it pops up an error message about "permission", I have tried to follow the step in dropbox help page but not working, then I uninstalled and reinstalled dropbox for several times, during the installation process, it shows "installing..." for about 1 or 2 miuntes then it went off and the dropbox icon was not shown on the taskbar. Although i click on the icon shown on startup program, it seems not functioning at all! no starting, connecting or syncing as last time.

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Description of the issue:

Brave icon is not present on taskbar button to open brave browser. Instead it is a default icon of a blank sheet.

How can this issue be reproduced?

We're having a problem with GP 4.0.6 and 4.1.1 clients on Windows 10 where the icon dissapears from the task bar. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it causes a fair amount of user frustration. With the 4.0.6 client, I could search for global protect and bring up the connect window. With 4.1.1, I have to kill the the GlobalProtect process, and then it pops back into the taskbar.

I wish That setting is "yes". This appears to be a disagreement between GP and Windows 10 Pro, at least in our environment. That I'm aware, our Macs and remaining Win 7 machines don't have the issue.

I had this same issue, but with GP 4.1 only(and on Win 7 and 10). This little bug was pretty detrimental for us, since we are "enforcing" a Global Protect connection. The Global Protect service seemed like it was half-way running. Global Protect could not connect to the Portal/Gateway, which would then block ALL network traffic(because we are enforcing a Global Protect connection).

I haven't run across this issue with 4.1.1; but then again I think I only have a handful of people using GlobalProtect instead of AnyConnect. What happens if you close GlobalProtect and stop all of its services and then restart, do you get the icon back? It may be that one of the services enters a funky state occassionally.

Reawakening this thread. Still a problem up to 4.1.4. I can "fix" it by killing off any GlobalProtect Client procceses, which can be done in a user context even if they're not an admin. Have a case going, but this is really annoying.

This is still happening to us with Globalprotect 5.2.6-87 ... We are also using Protected Mode. It happens when a user logs in and is connected to a captive portal network that blocks network traffic or logs in locally with no wifi connection.

Hello there. Subject said that all. This option was available till windows10 in taskbar and start menu settings, but in windows11, I found a settings to enable notification icons one by one, and not all icons remain enabled at the time. How to do this (show all icons in system tray) in windows11?

I ran the prompt. I entered the value, I checked the box, the box had a blue check mark in it, I clicked the ok button, and my icons are still only partially visible. I've had so many problems with windows 11. This is the last change I need to make and it's not working. I guess I have to go in manually every time something changes and tell this piece of crap operating system to show each one individually. If I ever meet Bill Gates I will slap him like Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. As the police are taking me away I will scream out, "that's for not letting me automatically show all the icons on my taskbar in windows 11!!!"

I tried this and it worked. However, later on in the day, it stopped working, I have to click on the arrow to see some icons. When I went through the process again, the Notifications Area Icons window still has a tick by the always show all icons but I cannot untick it or tick it again???

Have you got an ideas, please!

Well this is pretty frustrating to deal with and I'm glad to see that I'm far from alone. Unfortunately haruncosovic's "best response" does work but only works temporarily and in my experience only worked one time before not working at all again.

I think we should all send feedback to Microsoft about this issue and hopefully they'll take the hint if enough of us do it.

If I unpin it, I get the correct icon. If I then right-click on it, the icon breaks again. If I pin it again, still the broken icon. Unpin again and back to good icon. Very annoying. How can I fix this?

Open Windows Explorer, go to %userprofile%\AppData\Local, delete IconCache.db. (This file is hidden, so if you don't see it, you will need to adjust your Windows Explorer settings to show hidden files.)

Root Cause: if your combined PATH environment variables are more than 2048 characters, then it (and WINDIR) stop being visible in many contexts. This may cause start menu items/programs to be "not found", even though they are in fact there, and work if run manually from windows explorer or command prompt.

Interim Fix (maybe): I've had mixed results with this, but if you open Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del Task Manager) and quit Explorer (note desktop will go blank and start menu goes away), and then run Explorer again, all the problems temporarily disappear and things work properly. However, this is only a temporary solution.

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