Taskbar keeps disappearing and cannot get it back w/out restarting!

Anonymous
2009-11-13T18:05:43+00:00

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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Anonymous
2009-11-15T13:15:31+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2009-12-25T20:54:27+00:00

    My taskbar does the same thing everytime I leave my laptop up and when it goes to sleep mode.  Every single time I wake it up...the taskbar vanishes

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-12-23T06:52:48+00:00

    Tried "explorer.exe", doesn't come back... Any other ideas?

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-11-15T11:21:23+00:00

    I sometimes find that I get this problem if I try to 'drag and drop' icons onto the task bar. Also get a similar issue with desktop icons disappearing, for example if I rename them, and they won't re-appear until I re-boot my pc.

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    Steve

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-11-13T18:37:26+00:00

    Does any type of error come up?  Have you checked to make sure "auto-hide" isn't set?


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