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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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Didn't work until I ended the process. Pretty annoying!
One thing that I have noticed when this happens is that I can barely see the top of the taskbar at the bottom of the page, with the top of the first row of tasks just barely showing.
I do not use any third party screen savers (never have), and do not have auto-hide checked.
Windows 7 is the only version of windows where I have had this happen, and then only on a laptop with an extended desktop across two monitors.
The only thing I have found that works so far is the script for killing and restarting explorer. It happens so much that I have one of my Favorites keys on my MS Natural keyboard set to execute it.
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I have found a way to keep the task bar from disappearing on my computer! First I had tried the explorer.exe and that did not work, nor did any of the other misc. suggestions other people had. I have a new computer and don't have any other screen savers than what came with it. The only thing that worked for me was the previewing the screen saver, but I wanted to find something more permanent until Microsoft fixes this annoying serious problem.
Anyway this is what I did and my taskbar has not disappeared for over a week now!!
Follow these steps:
1- Go to 'Control Panel'
2- Hit 'Hardware and Sound'
3- Hit 'Power Options'
4- Hit 'Change When the Computer Sleeps' (on the left side of the screen)
5- Change the 'Put the Computer To Sleep' under both 'On Battery' and 'Plugged In' to***"Never*"**
Some people also have to change 'Turn Off the Display' under both Battery and Plugged' to
"Never" also. (I didn't)
6- Hit 'Save Changes'
My taskbar was present when I changed this setting. Get the taskbar back before you change the settings. Re-start if you have to and you will probably have to re-start after you change the settings.
Good luck. It has made me love my new computer again... :-)
October 13,2011 - "It's been over two weeks now and my taskbar is still there! If you are having problems, you have got to try the above change."
March 1, 2012 - "My Taskbar is still here!!"
