Taskbar Missing on Resume from Sleep on Windows 24H2

[RadicalRadish]

Describe the bug

The issue is explained at length here: Severe Open-Shell Problem on Win11 24H2 When System Resumes from Sleep.

Area of issue

Start menu, Taskbar

To reproduce

Please see the thread at Win11 Forums.

Expected behavior

I would expect Open-Shell and the taskbar to display normally on resume from sleep.

Open-Shell version

4.4.194

Windows version

Windows 11 24H2 build 26100.2605

Additional context

No response

[ge0rdi]

Never saw anything like that.
Do you use any other customization software?

[RadicalRadish]

Hello Ge0rdi,

Thank you for responding.

The customisation software that I do use is as follows:

O&O ShutUp10++ — have enforced only the 'Recommended' settings.
Winaero Tweaker — I have only altered 3 settings with this none of which would affect the taskbar. The 3 settings are:
Windows 11 > Enable Ribbon. "Permanently enable classic File Explorer with Ribbon."
File Explorer > Automatic Folder Type Discovery. "Disable automatic folder type discovery."
Advanced Appearance Settings > Scrollbars. This sets File Explorer scrollbar width and the size of scrollbar buttons.

I have made a couple of registry tweaks one of which targets the Padded Border Setting of windows.

I should say that of the above that I have previously used these settings on a Windows 10 setup and with Open-Shell installed and that system ran flawlessly. I have no particular reason to think that any of the above would have a bearing on the resume from sleep issues I am experiencing. This said for now I have had O&O ShutUp set all the settings back to "Factory Settings" (my system is now leaking like a sieve to Microsoft) and will test things that way for a day or two. Trying to pin down what is causing the issues is difficult because the issue is intermittent, it doesn't happen on every resume, but it does happen more often than not.

I find this doubly frustrating because this is happening on a entirely new install of Win11 24H2 and I'm just slowly constructing what I hoped would be a stable system, tweaked to my own preferences, that I can image off so that if I ever run into severe problems I can get back to a stable and usable system in an couple of minutes.

[ge0rdi]

My only recommendation would be to temporarily uninstall those programs one by one and check when (if) the issue goes away.
I'd start with Winaero Tweaker.

I should say that of the above that I have previously used these settings on a Windows 10 setup and with Open-Shell installed and that system ran flawlessly.

Unfortunately, you cannot really compare the experience on Win10 with Win11 as there are many differences between those.
Many things that worked on Win10 don't work on Win11 anymore.

[RadicalRadish]

Both O&O ShutUp10++ and Winaero Tweaker are portable programs, so nothing to uninstall. Only thing necessary to do is revert changes they made back to system default settings.

So I tried the following:

Revert all O&O Shutup10++ settings to default system settings and reboot the system.
Revert the three tweaks made in Winaero Tweaker back to system defaults and reboot the system.

Then tested resume from sleep — the issue showed up again. From this I take it that O&O Shutup10++ settings were/are not the issue. The tweaks I was using in Winaero Tweaker were/are not the issue.

Dash! Back to the beginning again!

[RadicalRadish]

Hello Ge0rdi,

At the Windows 11 Forum a poster called 'hdmi' suggested setting up a Scheduled Task to workaround the issue. The instructions for the task are in these two posts:

All of this post

The last paragraph of this post

The workaround does work so at least when the issue occurs it will be dealt with in an automated way.

Thanks very much for your time and suggestions. Appreciated.

[RadicalRadish]

The problem seems to have fixed itself as at 09 January 2025.

More detail here: