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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
Same thing here after I installed the initial scan to get Windows 7 update.
TEMPORARY FIX:
Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del, click Start Task Manager)
Click on the PROCESSES tab
Find the "explorer.exe" under IMAGE Name and click on it
Click "End Process" (Lower right corner) (This closes the previous explorer desktop)
Click on FILE (upper left corner)
Click on NEW TASK
Type in "explorer"
Hit OK button
I've also noticed that if I close out all of my applications and then put machine into sleep mode, when I wake it, the task bar is still active. If my machine starts the screen saver or is left idle too long, my task bar disappears again.
COME ON GUYS: FIX THIS PROBLEM!!! I"m tired of the work around.
I AGREE... IT DOES WORK BUT WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?? PLEASE FIX THE ISSUE.. IT IS VERY ANNOYING AND DISAPPOINTING SINCE I UPGRADED TO WIN7... SHOULDA SWITCHED TO A MAC!
well i want to know why it happens. is it an operating system error (which mac os x is free of) or registry problem (another problem not in mac os x) i feel like Microsoft made so many errors on its operating system purposely to anger people. im too lazy to go on task manager every 2 hours
I am having the same issue with my taskbar. My temporary solution that works every time, but does not correct the issue is to:
It takes like 3 seconds to do rather than opening up the task manager :)
I hope this is helpful <3
Still does not work
