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Some Taskbar Icons not working the same as others
I updated from Win8.1 to Win10 over the weekend. I use a number of documents pinned to the icons on my Taskbar. (I right click the icons and pin frequently used docs from the recently used file list on each icons context menu) When I right click the Taskbar icons, most have a context menu (Open and Unpin from Taskbar and a list of recently used files) but with Notepad or Excel2016 I don't see the context menu or the unpin option with either of these. The icon seems dead to a right click.
To add to the mystery, I was able to remove the Excel icon from the large start menu Icons but can't seem to get it back now. The icon in the start menu/all apps does not work either and my Taskbar icon for Excel has stopped launching the program since I removed the icon from the start menu. Other MS Office icons and other program icons are working normally except Notepad has similar issues.
I don't want to make things worse by doing a reinstall or other drastic things if I can avoid them. Any ideas or thoughts on how to fix this.