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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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One thing that I have noticed when this happens is that I can barely see the top of the taskbar at the bottom of the page, with the top of the first row of tasks just barely showing.
I do not use any third party screen savers (never have), and do not have auto-hide checked.
Windows 7 is the only version of windows where I have had this happen, and then only on a laptop with an extended desktop across two monitors.
The only thing I have found that works so far is the script for killing and restarting explorer. It happens so much that I have one of my Favorites keys on my MS Natural keyboard set to execute it.
Didn't work until I ended the process. Pretty annoying!
My Windows 7 taskbar did now hide well as described by many, but worked after a while wonderfully one day. My guess is that Windows 7 Updates probably cured it after a few months. So set it on with an operator control option. (Mine was set to "always on".)
