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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?
VP Tech Services
Hi jmwoods,
To open Task Manager, you can do one of the following:
or
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How do you open task manager
7-64 bit, same issue, started out rarely, progressed to daily.
Wasn't a third party firewall
The fixexplorer batch file helped, but every time I used it, it threw my desktop icons all over the screen.
I tried something simple that has worked 4 days in a row as of this message.
Right click Taskbar or Start Menu, Properties, Taskbar tab
Uncheck - Use small icons, apply, ok..
Can't say it will work for all, but it sure stopped my frustration
I tried this, but I have the address bar and quick launch menu (do not like using the "Pin this program to taskbar" option for programs) on my taskbar. When I tried that setting, it rearranged everything, and this takes me longer to fix than hitting a macro key that kills are and restarts explorer.exe.
I do appreciate the suggestion, and I am sure it will help some folks.
P.S. - Setting up the Quick Launch menu in the first place is a hassle because MS chose to make it that way by removing the option to display it. Once I get it set up the way I like, I don't want to have to hassle with it just because I walked away long enough for my screensaver to come on.
I have this issue with 64 bit Windows 7 Enterprise SP 1.
