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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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That's when my problems started happening as well.
Thank you,JWMA! Your solution worked for me. I have Toshiba notebook with Vista SP2.
For me, the task bar started to disappear only recently, it seems it started after I installed Apple iTunes. I suspect the Apples's Bonjour service might be causing this.
I plan to get rid of Bonjour service, let's see if it helps.
I've had iTunes for a long time on this computer; taskbar thing only started happening after my daughter asked for a 3rd party screensaver. Keep them off!!
I found that you might not even have to wait for your screensaver to pop up, just preview your screensaver and it might pop back I've done this once but it works and will hopefully continue to do so
I have been having this same issue since I got new computer with Windows 7 about a month ago. Taskbar is fine unless I leave computer for awhile then it disappears. Only way to get it back ( I thought) was restart but I just tried the preview of screen saver and the taskbar came back. Thanks for the tip but Microsoft needs to fix this annoying bug.
Thanks, so far so good =)
I found I must first enter the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc), and under the Processes tab - end the 'explorer.exe' process. Only then can I enter the Run menu (also in the Task Manager itself) and begin a new process by the same name.
After that - all is back to normal =)
