Solved Clicking on System Icons (WiFi, Sound, Time/Date, Power) Does Nothing

Hi all,

I just upgraded to Windows 11. I also installed StartAllBack but I'm not sure if that's the issue or not, but clicking on the system icons doesn't show any flyout menus or options. I turned off the enhanced taskbar in StartAllBack and restarted shell but they still didn't work in classic taskbar.

What else might have broken this?

Open the Command Prompt with administrative privileges and execute Sfc /Scannow command to repair corrupted system files.

I did that and found no problems...

Did you reset Notification icons?

FreeBooter said:

Did you reset Notification icons?

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I did this batch file.

I also tried turning those off and on and it didn't change.

Uninstall StartAllBack application to know problem resolves.

I uninstalled StartAllBack, re-did SFC and also ran the batch file from this site, and I still get no flyouts.

Actually, I installed Win11 on another system too and that one also has the same problem...

What happens when you right click on them ?

muzicman82 said:

I uninstalled StartAllBack, re-did SFC and also ran the batch file from this site, and I still get no flyouts.

Actually, I installed Win11 on another system too and that one also has the same problem...

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If both computer having same problem, then it's Windows 11 installation media that is the problem, did you create the installation media with Windows 11 media creation tool?

Also install all important Windows updates.

All -

I figured this out. The two computers I had a problem with were both in-place upgrades from Windows 10. On those installations, I had Action Center disabled with Winaero Tweaker. Turns out the upgrade kept that setting and that breaks the system icon panels.

I generally don't do upgrades, but I know I will have to deal with it on other systems, so I figured I'd try it. I did just clean install the one system just to get a feel for the OOTB route.

Clean install on a new SSD = Great

My clean install of W11 on a new 980 Pro 500GB is flying.

Glad you got it sorted