

The overlapping mish-mash of icons persisted. Then thinking the taskbar system was corrupt I did an SFC /scannow and even a DISM. I suspected a recent addition to the icon list was the culprit. Indeed, only vertical displays of the taskbar behaved. I have been wrestling with exactly these symptoms for about 1 week. "But after a few updates yesterday (21H1, KB5003214, KB5003254), the notification area in the far right edge of the taskbar began behaving strangely."Īn example of these display glitches is shown below, where you can see the system tray icons all overlaying each other in a mess. I got this feature recently - within the last few weeks, I don't recall exactly because I shut it off immediately - and things were fine," a user posted on Reddit. "I'm experiencing an issue that I've traced to the new "News and interests" taskbar feature. Since installing this update, numerous users report that the system tray in the Windows 10 taskbar began having display glitches where tray icons disappear, get pushed to the right, overlay each other, or get pushed off the edge of the screen. This update also enables the new Windows 10 News and Interests taskbar news feed for all users of Windand later. Last week, Microsoft released the optional Window 10 KB5003214 preview update so that users and the enterprise can test the fixes coming in the mandatory June 2021 Patch Tuesday updates. The latest Windows 10 2004, 20H2, and 21H1 preview update is causing display issues and glitches on the taskbar's system tray.
