SysManager 1.108.0

[1.108.0] - 2026-09-15

System Fixes can fix a frozen taskbar and blank icons now — and neither needs administrator rights.
Two of the most common things people actually complain about had no one-click fix on the tab named for
fixes: a taskbar that stops responding, and icons that come up blank or wrong. Both are on System Fixes
now, in their own group clearly marked as needing no administrator rights, above the repairs that do. The
icon fix is not the same as the cache category in Deep Cleanup: Windows holds those cache files open while
it runs, so clearing them from a cleanup scan gets only the ones that are not the problem. This one closes
the desktop first, clears all of them, and brings the desktop straight back.

Added

• Restart Windows Explorer, on System Fixes. For a taskbar that has stopped responding, a Start menu
  that will not open, or a desktop with no icons. The command already existed on the Context Menu tab,
  where nobody with a frozen taskbar would think to look for it.
• Rebuild icon & thumbnail cache, on System Fixes. Stops Explorer, clears the icon and thumbnail
  caches, and starts it again — and starts it again even if the clearing fails, because being left
  without a desktop would be far worse than a cache that did not clear. Reports exactly how many files it
  cleared and how many were still in use, rather than claiming a success it did not get.
• The System Fixes card list is now grouped, into "Repair Windows itself" (needs administrator
  rights) and "Fix the desktop and taskbar" (does not). Without the split, the tab's elevation banner
  spoke for every button on the page, so a user without administrator rights would reasonably assume
  nothing there worked for them.

Changed

• The Explorer restart is now one shared implementation used by both tabs, instead of living on the
  context-menu service. It ends each Explorer instance individually, so one process that refuses to close
  cannot abort the loop and leave you without a desktop — a second hand-written copy would almost
  certainly have lost that, so a test now forbids one.

Fixed

• Two tabs can no longer restart Explorer at the same time. Overlapping restarts can leave you with no
  desktop at all. The Context Menu tab guarded against it within itself, but that guard could not see
  another tab — and as of this release another tab can start one. Both now take a shared lock, which is
  deliberately separate from the one the long repairs use: an SFC scan runs for up to fifteen minutes, and
  a frozen taskbar during one still has to be fixable.

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