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As my title suggests, I am missing all my taskbar shortcuts on startup of Windows 10. I have fount my own workaround for now: When I pin/unpin something from the taskbar the rest of the pinned shortcuts show up.

OS:

Windows 10 Pro - Version: 1703 - OS Build: 15063.13

Since this is my first question here, and I can't post multiple links, I've gathered my screenshots of the error and the workaround here:

screenshots

Have any of you experienced this? And possibly have a better solution for it than my current workaround..?

magicandre1981
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Dennis Jensen
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Bitdefender Anti-Ransomware is known for causing problems with the taskbar.

The first report of this problem seems to date from January 2016 :
Windows 10 Quick Launch Icons Disappear Upon Reboot.

The accepted workaround that was found says:

This "disappearing" task bar icon issue only happens when the "Desktop" folder is being protected by the Bitdefender 2016 Anti-Ransomware module. If you remove the "Desktop" folder from the list of protected folders, the problem is resolved.

For more information see the Bitdefender article
How to add exclusions (exceptions) in Bitdefender 2016.

The poster has also found that turning off the "Protect at boot" option also solves the issue.

harrymc
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I've had this same issue for a while (Windows 10 pro 20H2, build 19042.1165)

and this seemed to fix it 'most' of the time.

Control Panel > Power Options > Choose what the power buttons do > then uncheck "Turn on fast startup".

Turning this off for whatever reason seemed to fix this issue most of the time.

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