Taskbar Icons calculator won't load

Good Day,
I have noted that during booting, several times the icons on the taskbar for the calculator and notepads are missing. Their spot on the taskbar is blank. When I click on the blank area it launches the program and then the icon appears and stays there. This is intermittent and hopefully whatever issue is causing it can be resolved by the learned members of this forum!
Thanks
glennc

Caledon Ken said:

Hey

This fix worked for another user. Shut windows down completely by holding down shift key and clicking shutdown (not restart).

This starts windows fresh.

There are lots of postings about icons in Windows 10 and there is no sure fire fix. Hopefully the shutdown clears.


Ken

Well Hello again Kind Sir,
I will certainly give it a try. Not a great problem... didn't know if it was the computer or the software. Will go with the software side first!! Shift and shutdown, might you elaborate on the difference of that vs a plain shutdown?
In any case, appreciated!
glennc

Caledon Ken said:

Hi Glen.

When you shut Windows down these days, Windows saves an Image of the Windows Kernel and Drivers. These are used at boot time to shorten the timeframe. By holding the shift key down and clicking shutdown you tell windows not to do this and to start fresh.

Shawn's tutorial will explain more and it has links to even more info.

Fast Startup - Turn On or Off in Windows 10


Ken

Okay,cool a Shawn tutorial! Much appreciated! Going to be spending some time on the two way verification first!

glennc

Caledon Ken said:

Shut windows down completely ... (not restart)

Actually a restart should be sufficient. It appears a restart should do a full shutdown and reboot regardless of the Fast start-up setting - at least, that's what Microsoft seem to be saying here...