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

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http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ 

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-12-13T17:09:44+00:00

    Right click at the top of the IE bar (on the pale blue bit)  and click MENU BAR

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-12-13T17:06:49+00:00

    min'es gone too - after I updated Adobe!

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-09T20:48:54+00:00

    It fixed mine.  Thanks. 

    first useful thing for windows answer in a decade for me.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-10-01T16:24:48+00:00

    Dear Keith! Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! Finally, after days of looking for what was wrong, why I did not have available to me my Windows 7 Start Menu Bar, this F11 worked! God Bless you! Thanks! Juli ;)

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