Windows 10: Windows 11 Taskbar Item Context Menu Icon Missing

I am trying to find a way to fix broken icons in the right-click context menu of various items in the Windows 11 taskbar.Affected items are:Windows TerminalNotepadMicrosoft To Do icon has sporadically come and goneTroubleshooting steps taken so far:unpin/repin affected appuninstall/reinstall affected app`sfc /scannow``dism /online /clenaup-image /restorehealth`repair upgradedeleted files in `%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations\*`deleted files in `%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\*`deleted reg key `HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr

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Is there a way to add new items to the context menu of taskbar icons in Windows 10?

It is possible to add custom items to the context menu of specific file types through the registry, however extending the .lnk files, that I suppose are used in the windows 10 taskbar has no effect on the context menu that accessible from the taskbar, only on the ones accessible from desktop or file explorers.

I'd like to either add a custom option to the jumplist menu (on the taskbar), or to the menu that shows up once right-clicking the shortuct icon in the jumplist menu.

My goal is to be able to open the file location of items located on the taskbar more efficiently, currently the best way I know is:

1. Right click the icon on the taskbar
   
2. Right click the app's shortcut in the jumplist menu
   
3. Click on 'Properties'
   
4. Click on 'Open file location'
   
5. Close the Properties window
   

I'd like to shave off as many steps as possible from this process.

 

Context menu of Recent item of pinned taskbar missing

So this happened to me quite recently, the context menu of recent items from pinned taskbar items is blank now. I did not install anything new recently too, I have tried disabling context menu that are not from Windows using CCleaner's tool and also shexview but still can't get it to work. I really want to pin items and remove recent items. Can someone advise me on what to do next?

 

Context menu of Recent item of pinned taskbar missing

I don't really see the point of putting a whole screenshot when there's nothing more to see since the context menu is empty. But here it is:




the pin and unpin icon is still there when I hover my cursor over it, but when I right click the items, the context menu is empty. It used to show options like "open file location", "properties", "remove from recent", etc

sfc did detect corrupted files, fixed them and rebooted. scanned again, still corrupted files, trying out using dism to restore now, will update later