# Icon not showing in Task Bar - Win 11

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/icon-not-showing-in-task-bar-win-11/55081
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [November 10, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/icon-not-showing-in-task-bar-win-11/55081 "2021-11-10T14:40:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![johnfoliot](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/johnfoliot/32/10224_2.png) [@johnfoliot](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/johnfoliot)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/icon-not-showing-in-task-bar-win-11/55081/1 "2021-11-10T14:40:53Z")

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My laptop recently upgraded to Windows 11, and now when I launch Mp3tag, the button is in the task bar, but the icon is not showing.  
 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3cab92675a89a0aa7d7acce06dc4821855b152ff.png)

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/icon-not-showing-in-task-bar-win-11/55081/2 "2021-11-10T14:42:09Z")

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See here:

> [@No "sign" (dot) showing mp3tag is active in task line from Windows 11](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-sign-dot-showing-mp3tag-is-active-in-task-line-from-windows-11/54913/6):
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> I've investigated this over the past hour and it seems that this is a side-effect of the Explorer context menu shell extension. Windows uses a dedicated mechanism to load those extensions in memory (a so-called COM Surrogate) which is apparently listed as separate process without icon in the task bar. This is far from optimal, but I don't know how to circumvent this currently. I tried to see how other programs are dealing with that and the latest preview of WinRAR shows the same behavior. If a…

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/icon-not-showing-in-task-bar-win-11/55081/5 "2022-02-13T16:04:11Z")

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I think I've found a way to circumvent this and fixed it with [Mp3tag v3.12a](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455).

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/icon-not-showing-in-task-bar-win-11/55081/6 "2022-06-22T15:40:34Z")

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