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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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I am having the same problem and nothing seems to fix it. The only way to get the taskbar back is to reboot my laptop. Even after doing this the taskbar will disappear again after a while. It also disappears everytime I minimize Internet Explorer.?? Please help, this is a major problem!! You can't go back & forth in different programs because you can't see them.
My taskbar keeps disappearing randomly and will not come back until I restart. Once I restart the taskbar comes back
and then disappears again. Autohide is not selected. Please help
I've found out that pressing F11 twice (Enter/exit full screen) provides a temporary fix, it only takes a second, it works for me, I hope it works for you too.
I've had this problem since May 2011 (new computer with Windows 7)- no problem before. The ONLY work around I've found is to go into preview of screen saver which somehow "resets" the taskbar. I've put a shortcut on my desktop so it's easy to get to and only takes a minute; still it's annoying to have to do it at all considering shouldn't most current version of Windows actually work? Seriously Microsoft your top programmers can't figure this out?
