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?

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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

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  1. Anonymous
    2008-12-17T09:53:20+00:00

    F11 toggles Full Screen mode (which should solve Corin's problem) in Internet Explorer.  Kiosk mode is something different.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-01-22T17:04:04+00:00

    This same thing is happening to me!!!  I tried F11 and I have tried everythng possible that I know and still no task bar when I open internet explorer. Sure I can resize my windows everytime I open internet explorer but why should I............oh where oh where has my task bar gone! Please help me!

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-02-18T21:52:24+00:00

    i have the same problem! i tried pressing f11 but it didn't work. it's making me sooo mad! pleeaassee help :[

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-04-27T17:46:42+00:00

    Thanks, this helped me....I thought I was doing something wrong, but it happened afted I updated adobe.  I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not...thank you!

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