My taskbar is missing when i use Internet Explorer

Anonymous
2008-12-11T17:53:37+00:00

From: Corin

Am I crazy, or did my task bar disappear?  When I am looking at my desktop I have a task bar... and I could have sworn that for the last couple months (since installing Vista) I had a task bar visable when I was in Internet Explorer.  ("You don't know what you got til its gone."  :-P) Only problem is, NOW when I'm in Internet Explorer, I DON'T have a task bar.  I NOW have to navigate between programs by using the ALT+TAB.  I don't know of anything else that has changed on this computer. 

Any ideas on how to get the task bar up an running for while I'm in Internet

Explorer?

--Thanks

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Anonymous
2008-12-11T17:54:53+00:00

From: Jimmy Brush

Hello,

It sounds like you may have accidentally enabled Internet Explorer's kiosk mode. Press the F11 key inside of internet explorer, and see if that fixes the problem.

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-JB

Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support FAQ -

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ 

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-08-06T20:09:46+00:00

    thank you-thought I was going crazy.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-02-17T17:56:02+00:00

    HOOOLY **** MAN UR MY LIFE SAVER THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! ur the smarteset guy in the world man i dunno what would hav happened without you i was about to take my computer n rip it out n smash it. but thanks man

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-12-21T14:27:49+00:00

    Hi nemismom,

    Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Windows Community site. In an effort to focus more attention on your particular situation create a new thread here.  This will mitigate confusion caused by more than one posting about similar   topics, allowing us to focus on each customer individually

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-12-20T21:14:26+00:00

    Help!  I tried all the solutions here, but my taskbar is still gone.  It reappears occasionally, but doesn't stay long - it doesn't matter if IE is open or not. .  It's not hidden and the option to show it at the bottom is checked.  I do not have the option to "keep on top of other windows" in my taskbar option.  I am running Windows 7. Please help!

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