Windows 11 - Taskbar not working

Software & Web Applications
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Hello all,

SO I’ve been having issues with some Windows 11 devices.

The taskbar reverts back to a windows 10 style but the Start menu button and the search bar do not work at all.

after trying all the google-fu I could I didn’t get anywhere.

I removed and reinstalled the updated’s that had been deployed.

I also had uninstalled some Dell software that had been install that night.

I went through the event logs and discover startdock.dll had failed.

After trying to rebuild all the normal SFC and DISM junk I haven’t been about the resolve this I even import the DLL from a working PC. (jank I know but)

I’m about to reinstall this problem PC tomorrow.

this is the 3 Laptops we have had this happened to all have been dell.

Has anyone else seen this? the other laptop we reset or rolled back to 10.

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I don’t use Windows much but my staff does and we have been avoiding any WIndows 11 roll outs as it is so buggy.

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We’ve rolled out Windows 11 to hundreds of Dell laptops without seeing this issue. The only issue we have seen is with a network driver, but I can’t blame Microsoft for Realtek’s poor drivers, an update fixed the issue. Have you checked the devices have been certified by Dell for Windows 11?

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I’ll be seeing the device this afternoon so I will check that.