I got bit by this yesterday on one of my ThinkPads. I've been using Explorer Patcher just to be able to get back to a less tall taskbar. It's simply bonkers tha

I got bit by this yesterday on one of my ThinkPads. I've been using Explorer Patcher just to be able to get back to a less tall taskbar. It's simply bonkers that in Windows 11 they removed the "small icons" option in the taskbar. I like my thin taskbar, thank you. What happened was similar to what's described in the article: after starting up, the taskbar would appear and disappear in an infinite loop. The immediate fix was to do a hard reset by holding down the power button. (I don't remember if I just had to do this once or multiple times.) On startup, Windows offered some recovery options, and in the advanced section was an option to uninstall the last quality update. Did that and it's up and running again. One odd thing was that my other ThinkPad didn't have this problem. Perhaps I'd updated Explorer Patcher on that one before installing the Windows update?