Settings Icon Missing in Taskbar

LividTech-1035 0 Reputation points
2025-07-29T20:43:11.6233333+00:00

The icon in my taskbar for the settings app is missing in my taskbar (it appears on the start menu but not on the app or taskbar). I have since tried sfc /scannow, dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth, deleting the icon cache and finally most recently resetting windows while keeping files. Non of this has helped. While I previously had some problems with other apps it was solved by reinstalling them or by pinning the app to the taskbar (which is not possible with the settings app.) Furthermore when I was trying to create a shortcut manually and was assigning the icon I noticed that there are several icons in the %systemRoot%\System32\imageres.dll that was completely blank even after the system refresh.

Windows for home | Other | Desktop, Start, and personalization
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  1. Kimberly Olaño 16,585 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2025-08-01T14:29:27.7033333+00:00

    Cool, great to know our solutions worked.

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