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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
OK folks. I just found an interesting issue that may help others in this. LOL..I found it completely on accident. So when I was trying to locate a window I opened without the task bar at the bottom, I noticed that there was a slight gray shadow on the far right edge of my screen. When I went over and clicked and dragged it, it was the window I was looking for. It's position was lower right. So I moved my mouse way off screen and way low and clicked and it opened something that had been on my task bar. It was like fishing for the dang thing but.,,,I did it again and clicked and held and dragged and lo and behold, there was my task bar. Now I never moved this on my own (Yes I'm positive!) and it absolutely was caused by the computer going into sleep mode but it was'nt missing, it just moved the thing completely off screen. So if yours is missing, try looking way off screen for it. Everyones fixes were accurate and I thank you all for taking the time to asnwer this. I think if you dont let it go into sleep mode once you get it back, the problem will be resolved at least until they fix the actual problem that causes this issue.
Thank you all again!!!
kess
I have tried everyone's solution to this problem from ending the explorer and restarting it from task manager to Angels screen saver fix and making it so my computer never goes into sleep mode and at this point, my task bar seems to be gone forever. It is not set on auto hide and i do not have the ability to resize it.
Ive litterally tried everyones fix from this thread with no return of my task bar. It wont even return when I restart anymore.
Anyone else having this issue or able to help me?
I even made a new user last night and it loaded a task bar, before reading all of this so i hadnt changed power settings to never go into sleep mode and the task bar went away when it went in sleep mode and I cant get that one back either now even with all of these answers.
REALLY getting frustrated.
Thanks in advance to anyone who cant come up with a solution!!!
kess
the problem is not the screen saver since I am having the exact same issues and dont have a screen saver active.
hey after reading some of the reply's i figured out that if you Right Click your desktop.. hit Personalize and click your Screen Saver. *Preview* your screen saver and it should come back once you exit the screen saver. must reset your monitor or something
