Recently our users have been experiencing a weird issue, when they sign into Windows they can't click the taskbar and it freezes the PC if you click it. Not every user in our office has this issue and it seems to happen gradually. Also, if I sign in with a new account it is fine, only the main user of that computer is having the issue.
We can fix it by deleting the user profile and recreating it but that removes their settings, saved bookmarks, printers and their most crucial piece, the Taskbar. I tried copying their Roaming Folder, from %AppData%, that holds the Taskbar settings but nothing gets pinned for them.
Possible Fixes I tried:
This PowerShell Script
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} This worked on two computers and no others, also the issue came back a day later, for one of the users.
Removed the latest Windows Update, although it was 5 days before we had this issue.
Restarting or Stopping Windows Explorer also did nothing.
Running ChkDsk and SFC also had no success.
Anyone know a better fix for this or why it is happening now and randomly for users? Also, anyone know a way to keep a users profile settings on a Domain level, so its the same no matter what PC they log into? We can use Intune but Intune stinks.
Is there a way to reset a users profile without deleting their settings, so favorites and shortcuts remained unchanged?
With this taskbar issue its really hard to try to backup their Favorites, and their passwords can't be exported and then imported in to Edge, for whatever reason Edge doesn't have an import feature, even turning on the beta import Edge://flags setting, it doesn't let me import.





