Taskbar keeps disappearing and cannot get it back w/out restarting!

Catherine,

Have you tried the steps below? It's been working for me for over 5 months now. Read the steps below & hopefully it will work for you.

1- Go to 'Control Panel'

2- Hit 'Hardware and Sound'

3- Hit 'Power Options'

4- Hit 'Change When the Computer Sleeps' (on the left side of the screen)

5- Change the 'Put the Computer To Sleep' under both 'On Battery' and 'Plugged In' to***"Never*"**

6- Hit 'Save Changes'

My taskbar was present when I changed this setting. Get the taskbar back before you change the settings. Re-start if you have to and you will probably have to re-start after you change the settings.

Good luck. It has made me love my new computer again... :-)

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. 

Finally found an easy solution for this!

I too have tried most of the solutions that people have suggested and nothing worked.  I have since changed 2 settings and I believe it's solved the problem finally after many months!  I changed the settings about 2 weeks ago and so far so good: no disappearing taskbar.  Go to Control Panel/ Hardware and Sound/ Power Options/  Choose when to turn off Display AND when computer sleeps- change BOTH of these to Never and save.     Now when I'm done with computer I just manually turn the screen off with the button.   Hope this helps you too. It's such a relief not to have this bothersome problem anymore (knock on wood). 

llkllk24,

I put the same post up back on Oct. 3, 2011 (page 9 on these questions) and it is still working for me over 5 months now! I did not have to change the "Turn Off the Display" to Never, only the "Put the computer to sleep" to Never. Maybe certain computers need both? I'm glad it is working for you also. I put my post from Oct. below so the steps to take are easy to read for people.

October 3, 2011

I have found a way to keep the task bar from disappearing on my computer! First I had tried the explorer.exe and that did not work, nor did any of the other misc. suggestions other people had. I have a new computer and don't have any other screen savers than what came with it. The only thing that worked for me was the previewing the screen saver, but I wanted to find something more permanent until Microsoft fixes this annoying serious problem.

Anyway this is what I did and my taskbar has not disappeared for over a week now!!

Follow these steps:

1- Go to 'Control Panel'

2- Hit 'Hardware and Sound'

3- Hit 'Power Options'

4- Hit 'Change When the Computer Sleeps' (on the left side of the screen)

5- Change the 'Put the Computer To Sleep' under both 'On Battery' and 'Plugged In' to***"Never*"**

Some people also have to change 'Turn Off the Display' underboth Battery and Plugged' to

"Never" also. (I didn't)

6- Hit 'Save Changes'

My taskbar was present when I changed this setting. Get the taskbar back before you change the settings. Re-start if you have to and you will probably have to re-start after you change the settings.

Good luck. It has made me love my new computer again... :-)

Uh my Windows 7 every time  I start it up my desktop icon keep disappearing along with my task bar at the bottom and whatever I am typing in a text box stops and I have to click on it again

No it does not