Worryingly, another Reddit user suggests that: “News and interests causes this when its disabled. I’m assuming it’s because it forces the taskbar to be redrawn.”

After the taskbar is redrawn, toggle the setting again. Toggle the setting for ‘Use small taskbar buttons’. However, there are also reports claiming that just turning off the News widget on the taskbar will cure the icon corruption issues, a much simpler fix.Ī possible workaround is described by ‘old_old_geek’ on Reddit: “After booting has finished, right click on the taskbar and select Taskbar settings. Several potential easy fixes for the issue have been pointed out though, and one we’ve already mentioned: simply uninstall KB5003214. Of course, preview updates are still in testing, so it’s not surprising that there might be problems – though these sound like some particularly frustrating niggles to still be left in at this point. There are also some users experiencing display scaling issues which could be related to KB5003214, and again there’s a thread on Reddit where folks are complaining about the icon for the new feature looking fuzzy or out of focus.

The icons appeared over the clock for a bit then disappeared.”Ī denizen of Reddit also reported ‘graphical issues’ with the taskbar’s system tray being messed up, or even vanishing entirely. The user observed that uninstalling the update made the issue go away.Īnother report on the feedback hub complained: “After installing KB5003214, my taskbar (in the bottom right with clock, notification centre, network icon etc) all broke. Tested on a Surface Book 3 business edition and Alienware M17 R5.” One user who installed the patch reported on Microsoft’s feedback hub: “After installing quality cumulative preview update KB5003214, I’ve got some issues with the taskbar, mainly right side icons will move randomly, disappear (hide) or will be scrambled.

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