

Important: This article assumes that you haven’t taken any steps to purposefully return to the old taskbar aesthetic. Feel free to start following the guide you feel most comfortable with. We’ve created step-by-step instructions that will help you enforce every potential fix explained above. This method will only replace system files and it’s confirmed to resolve this problem and allow your OS to finally complete the migration to the Windows 11 taskbar.

If you’re stuck with the old taskbar aesthetic, one way to fix it is to use Task Manager to create a Command Prompt task that will clear the current settings maintaining the current aesthetic, and force your OS to migrate to the new taskbar look.

Creating a CMD Task via Task Manager – This is the official fix recommended by Microsoft’s software engineers.
