Microsoft has acknowledged issues with the taskbar freezing or the desktop remaining blank for a long time. The cause is said ...

Microsoft says a known Windows 11 issue causes the taskbar to freeze immediately after you sign in and is rolling out a fix.

Fed up with bits of Windows 11 being flaky of late? Microsoft has fixed bugs that cause a blank desktop, taskbar freezes and ...

Microsoft’s KB5089549 update fixes Windows 11 taskbar freezes, desktop right-click issues, and Explorer reliability bugs.

What just happened? One might imagine that Microsoft had given up trying to repair a Windows 11 bug that caused File Explorer to open automatically, seeing as it was first reported back in late 2022.