How to Restore a Frozen Start Menu or Task Bar in Windows 10

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Carefully Using Task Manager to Restart Windows Explorer

All Comments (21)

@Jagersdad70 7 years ago

Thank you!!! Not only for the fix, but for getting straight to the point!
@ChrisOolong 6 years ago

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@calicoixal 7 years ago

This just saved my life. I cannot give enough likes.
@sylviajilani2807 3 years ago

You have been a great help to me! Very simple and direct to the point,. Thank you so much! I love you😊
@jupitermane7821 5 years ago

It didn't work, things lit up on my tasbar but I couldn't press on them still
@verisimilitudeteller 7 years ago

Why does this do it in the first place? This happens on 40% of all startups for me. It never happens once I'm up and running but if I shut down my system or reboot about 40% of the time the taskbar won't have any icons in it and the start button won't be usable. There has to be a long term fix because it shouldn't be thought of as a normal thing for this to happen that frequently.
@SirDoctorofTardis79 7 years ago

I have never run into this issue before. THANK YOU!!!
@ask343 6 years ago

it's just my start menu, not my entire taskbar. if my mouse hovers over it, the animation will show but if i click it, nothing shows (but if something does show it usually freezes on the last frame of the animation of the start menu sliding up)
@neilbanks2136 5 years ago

Fantastic and quick advice - much appreciated!
@nokuthula7817 5 years ago

I love you 😭 was ready to lose hope in ever finishing these assignments
@noonescupoftea8446 6 years ago

Very good and useful video, mate. This really helped me out, thank you.
@cheril8891 7 years ago

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! You saved the day just like Mighty Mouse! Been trying to figure out what was wrong all evening and finally came across your video. Am so grateful. You da man.
@bowrey118 7 years ago

Thankyou, when I search for problem solutions this is the exact kind of answer I'm looking for, good video, good audio and well spoken instruction.
@baguettecat 2 years ago

I tried this and it fixes the problem most of the time... but there are several times like during start up my taskbar was not responsive and i couldn't find windows explorer on the task manager so- help?
@kingctheog 6 years ago

I have a Lenvevo laptop With windows 10 And my hard-drive has malfunctioned and Êvery time I click on reset PC and remove all drives it'll keep saying problem with repair no changes have been made and whenever I log the desktop and icons will pop up and then theading whole entire screen will just start blinking and I need to know what I can do?
@IhmePaskaa 6 years ago

Well. This actually did help. I had this problem somewhere on previous PC&operating systems and I forgot the way to do it. Thank you very much. Also, on my pc the "Windows Explorer" folder wasnt called like his, instead it was called Resource Management and was placed lower in the task manager katalog. The logo was like his though. GL.
@mason6hoe 4 years ago

everytime i hover over my task bar i get the blue circle and if i try to press the windows key or go to task manager nothing opens. Any help?
@G0B-LIN 3 years ago

This doesn't work my task bar is still frozen
@rahimtajoldini4785 7 years ago

Very simple solution and explanation! Thanks!
@MavixEdits 1 year ago

Concise and straight to the point, keep up the great work!