Your pinned apps are one Windows update away from disappearing. Taskbar Sentinel snapshots them automatically and restores them in one click — plus the per-app tray rules Microsoft never gave you, and the self-healing engine that keeps Explorer alive on bad days. THREE PROBLEMS. ONE APP. ? PINNED APP BACKUP Sentinel captures your pinned apps and taskbar layout automatically — before Windows updates, before Explorer restarts, on a daily or weekly schedule, before any risky write. Restore an entire layout in one click. If the restore goes wrong, Sentinel auto-rolls back to where you started. You can never end up worse than before you clicked Restore. ?️ PER-APP TRAY RULES Set Always show, Hide, or Default rules for each system tray icon. Rules survive Windows feature updates because Sentinel re-applies them. Sweep ghost icons that linger after uninstalls — with a 60-second undo if you change your mind. ?️ SELF-HEALING ENGINE Detects the classic taskbar glitches — missing icons, stuck auto-hide, multi-monitor system tray duplication — and refreshes Explorer using stable, documented Microsoft APIs. A built-in 5-second verification step prevents false positives so it only acts when something is actually wrong. WHY USERS BUY IT ✓ One-click restore. No registry hacks. No PowerShell. No scripts. ✓ 100% offline. No telemetry. No accounts. No phone-home. Ever. ✓ Pay once, own forever. No subscription. No upsells in the app. ✓ Reversible by design. Every operation can be undone. ✓ Atomic snapshots. Versioned, journaled, never partially written. UNDER THE HOOD • Built on Tauri 2 + Rust. About 12 MB installed. Under 35 MB idle RAM. • Less than 0.1% CPU at idle. Adaptive polling backs off on battery. • Eight snapshot trigger types covering every risky shell operation. • Snapshots tagged with a hashed machine ID. Cross-machine restore shows a warning before it touches anything. • Runs as a standard user. No UAC prompts. No elevation required. • Windows 11 native. Supports 24H2, 25H2, 26H1. Builds for x64 and ARM64. THIS IS NOT A THEME APP Sentinel does not change how your taskbar looks. It changes whether your taskbar still works after Windows pushes an update. If you have ever lost your pinned apps, ever wished you could hide a tray icon for one specific app, or ever restarted Explorer twice in one week — this is the utility that fixes those three things in one place.