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
    2011-01-09T10:53:35+00:00

    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!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-12-23T03:04:11+00:00

    Is there a fix to prevent the taskbar from disappearing in the first place?

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-12-15T00:02:52+00:00

    I also am having this problem but as someone suggested above that by previewing your screensaver it comes back which worked for me. Hopefully this will get fixed soon but for now it's a temp fix.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-10-27T23:21:18+00:00

    Thank you. I have been having the same problem the last couple of days. Your backdoor to the problem resolved the issue for me.

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