Taskbar Not Responding, Loading, Frozen, or Not Working on Windows 11/10

Sometimes users may experience intermittent issues with Windows system user interface Components. Such issues can give a bad user experience. One of these user interface elements is the taskbar. If you are also having problems where your Windows 11/10 taskbar not working correctly or freezes, unresponsive, clickable, or randomly stops working, this article may help you troubleshoot and fix the issue.

There are several methods to fix a taskbar that is not working. We will list the most effective methods.

Windows taskbar is unresponsive, not loading, frozen, or not working

If you are having problems where your Windows 11/10 taskbar is not working, not responding or freezing, these suggestions are sure to help you fix the problem.

Fx Unresponsive Taskbar in Windows 11/10

1]Restart Windows Explorer

This is a simple fix that can help restore your taskbar to working condition. If the problem with the taskbar is not so critical, this method should do the job for you. You won’t need to mess or fiddle with any other system settings. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Press Windows key + R combination on your keyboard to launch Course quick. Enter taskmgr.exe and press Enter to open Task Manager.

2. Now under Process tab, scroll down and find Windows Explorer over there.

3. Select Windows Explorer and click on Restart button in the lower right corner.

4. This should just kill the Windows Explorer process and restart it in a moment.

Check if this method solves the problem for you.

Read: How to restart or reset the Windows taskbar.

2]Check for bad explorer addons

Start your Windows 11/10 computer in clean boot state and try to locate the offender by trial and error method. Maybe a file explorer add-on is interfering with the proper functioning of explorer.exe. If you can identify if, disable or remove this addon and see.

3]Re-register the taskbar

If the problem reappears, try this method to fix it using Windows Powershell. Powershell is a command-line tool for configuring system settings and automating Windows tasks.

First, create a system restore point, then follow these steps to use Windows Powershell to fix taskbar issues:

1. Press windows key on your keyboard and type powershell. Right click Windows Powershell (application de bureau) and select Execute as administrator. To select Yes in the UAC window that appears.

2. Now paste the following command, in the PowerShell window and press Enter:

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest.xml”}

3. After the command is successfully executed, navigate to the following directory in Explorer or name is your account username. Make sure you have enabled showing hidden items in Explorer.

C:/Users/name/AppData/Local/

4. Scroll down to locate the folder named TileDataLayer and delete this folder.

If you are unable to delete this folder, run services.msc to open the services manager, scroll down to Mosaic data model server service and stop it. Now try deleting the folder once more.

5. Now check if your taskbar works as expected.

One of these fixes should work just fine for you. Shout out in the comment section below if any of these methods worked for you or if you are facing any other problem with the taskbar on Windows 11/10.

A report: Windows 11 taskbar not working.

See this article if your Windows Start menu isn’t working and this one if your taskbar icons or buttons aren’t working.