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My taskbar keeps disappearing randomly and will not come back until I restart. Once I restart the taskbar comes back and then disappears again. I have looked at the other solutions from people having similar problems and the solutions do not work.
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My taskbar keeps disappearing randomly and will not come back until I restart. Once I restart the taskbar comes back and then disappears again. I have looked at the other solutions from people having similar problems and the solutions do not work.
open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del, click Task Manager)
Click on File>New Task (Run) and enter "explorer.exe" (without the quotes)
Then click OK.
Does it come back?
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THANKS!!! It's the only thing that worked for me.
I just bought an Hp Pavilion this weekend, hooked it up last night and am having the same issue. It's driving me crazy. Whenever I wake up my computer everything is gone except my desktop background. Even hitting ctrl+LT+DELETE does nothing. I do get a message that the DVI on my monitor is "inactive."
Here's the weird part -- if I turn my monitor off, then back on, everything magically reappears. And the DVi status on the monitor is "active." Anyone have any ideas why this is happening and how to fix? THis is making me sorry I didn't just keep my old computer.
I wish I could get my task bar to disappear and stay gone! I've got it set on auto hide but everytime I go near the bottom of the screen it pops back into view again! I've got a 10" netbook and I need the screen space not a bar that gives me icons I can find perfectly well if I need them!! Argh!! It's driving me mad. Please let me know if there's anyway to get rid of it permanently? (Win 7 btw). Ta much.
This worked! Thank you so much. I can't believe that this problem has existed for more than a year and Microsoft still hasn't come up with a fix! Ridiculous!!!
