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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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This seems to be a glitch that is making a comeback. I have to run through the above instructions 2-3 times a day.
Unfortunately, I have already have this set. It happens about 25% of the time when the screen saver comes on.
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.
Opus 13 - What a pain in the **** this is for everyone. Have you tried making the setting change I suggested? Since I changed mine my taskbar has not disappeared in over two weeks! Here's what I did.
Go to 'Control Panel'
Hit 'Hardware and Sound'
Hit 'Power Options'
Hit 'Change When the Computer Sleeps' (on the left side of the screen)
Change the 'Put the Computer To Sleep' under both 'On Battery' and 'Plugged In' to "Never"
Hit 'Save Changes'
My taskbar was present when I changed this setting. Get the taskbar back before you change the setting. Re-start if you have to and you will probably have to re-start after you change the setting but it is worth the effort.
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".)
