The problem is that the icons in my Speed Dial are disappearing. This started happening with a previous laptop I was using temporarily, and I assumed it was because the processor was a mere 1.6GHz, and I only had 4 GB RAM (I couldn't even change my mind without it locking up and getting confused, it was sad, really).

I just set up my new PC two days ago, and it is still happening. And this PC has an Alder Lake N95 processor that goes up to 3.6 GHz, and 16 GB RAM.

Oddly enough, the other icons would not move to take the space left behind by the disappearing one, nor would my curser act like there was something there to click on. I followed the instructions pinned in the forum, and that didn't help. I even reset the PC back to factory settings (not because of this, but due to a classic ID-10-T error, which we will not speak of, ever again), and that didn't even help. I tried changing the theme, thinking maybe that was the issue, but nope. Still having the same problem. Help?

Also, oddly enough, the dynamic wallpaper was part of the cyber theme, and clearly the wallpaper in the second screenshot is not that, and I did not change it.

Attached re two screenshots. The first one is with the old laptop that couldn't even get out of it's own way, with the theme I thought might be the culprit (which it was not). The second was a screenshot I grabbed just before I started this. The missing icon is for my Gmail.