

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. IT admins who want to bring back the clock need to follow the same steps once again, only that in the policy dialog they have to toggle either to Not Configured or to Disabled.The latest Windows 10 2004, 20H2, and 21H1 preview update is causing display issues and glitches on the taskbar's system tray. The explorer process should then relaunch with your new settings. Press CTRL + ALT + Delete, to go Task Manager > File > Run new task and type explorer.exe. To do this, just press CTRL + Shift + right click on the taskbar and hit the option that reads Exit Explorer.


Once you apply the changes, however, a reboot is required.Īs an alternative, you can just kill the explorer.exe process and then relaunch it to see your changes applied. By default, the policy should be set to Not Configured. In the policy editor, navigate to the following path: User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar > Remove Clock from system notification areaĭouble-click this policy and then select the Enabled option. This time, the whole thing can be done from the Group Policy, which can be launched by clicking the Start menu and typing Edit group policy. In the case of IT admins, Microsoft is offering capabilities that give them more power over the computers they manage, meaning that they can disable the clock without allowing users to enable it back.
