Network connection and software update icons disappear

[Tenderfoot]

I also have this problem with the updates and networks icons not showing up on a fresh boot on Linux 6.6.  If I continue to reboot over and over again using the restart option in the shutdown menu, eventually the Network and Update Icons appear correctly next to the Sound Mixer Icon.  I generally only lose the visibility of the Network and Update Icons.  Very frustrating because I like to enable VPN at boot time most of the time, but if you can't see the Network Icon, it's pretty much impossible to enable the VPN using the built in GUI Interface.    Yes, I did install over a version Linux Lite from about 6 years ago, but have created separate /home, /, boot and swap partitions across 2 separate drives.  / and Boot are on the SSD and /home and swap are on a 2TB WD hard drive.  Everything has been working great since the upgrade with the exception of this crazy icon issue. 

Any suggestions to fix this would be welcomed.