To restore icons on Windows 11, right-click on an empty area on your desktop, select View, and then click on the Show desktop icons option. Your icons will show up with immediate effect.

On Windows 11, you can also click the button located in the bottom-right corner, next to the Copilot (or notification) icon. If the option isn't working, it's probably not enabled, in which case ...

One such issue at launch was the lack of an option to not combine taskbar icons (also called ungrouping) and show labels for each window. Thankfully, starting with Windows 11 version 23H2, this ...

Also, Windows 11 is known for messing around with tray icons, hiding them for no reason, or randomly bringing some back (looking at you, OneDrive). As usual, third-party developers fix things ...

This frustration is reflected in the Windows 11 Feedback Hub, where a suggestion to never combine app icons and show labels has received 17,527 upvotes, making it the 10th most requested feature.