I hate when something fails without saying anything about it. Hope this helps somebody. Hi, I got a sort of similar problem where all the tasks will not show on the current taskbar.
The taskbar itself is visible and so is the quicklaunch and the system tray items. Been looking in goolge for solutions but came up empty..
By Herman Wendt , at AM. I've just had the same problem with no taskbar or desktop icons and the taskbar appearing for just a moment when I run "explorer. Running "GoogleDesktopSetup. By Anonymous , at PM.
I have been struggling for the last month trying to fix my PC which has had the exact same problem. I had tried everything, including reinstalling XP repair , virus scans, the works, but I found this tonight, reinstalled Google Desktop, and its all up and running again now. Who would have thought By Anonymous , at AM.
My freshly installed windows XP started freezing and the taskbar essentially disappears black bar instead. I reboot, computer is fine but after a while 5 mins to a few hours it happens again. By disabling one startup item at a time I identified google desktop search as the culprit. This is the only page on the web I found with issues with explorer.
Love the search results better than windows search that I have previously tried but can't use it if it crashes my system.. I am having exactly the same problem with Herman.
It happened an hour ago. I am hopeless because I all my searches return silly solutions for people who accidentally hide their entire task bar. Any ideas would be really helpful! By vmp , at PM.
Herman, I got us a solution!!! The solution is to reset taskbar registry keys to the original state. Restore the Task Bar to Default Settings". This is a registry file, but you have to import it to the registry while the eplorer. Here is a way to do it: 1. Double click on the saved file. It will ask you if you want to enter this information to the registry. Leave it there. Kill explorer. Now that the desktop icons and the taskbar disappears, click the ok button for the registry 5.
It worked for me. I hope it was helpful. A solution at last. As I was reading your post, I recalled that I had uninstalled GoogleDesktop -- hadn't used it in months. Google sure F'd this thing up. Thanks for your post.
Prevented a computer being thrown from the roof. That did the trick for me. I have always had my taskbar in the auto hide mode so that it stays out of the way when I do things. Recently though, when I have a window open, internet, word or anything else the taskbar will not come back up unless I minimize the window first.
Can you help please. Thank you. I have my task bar window turned to vertical side of the desktop. How can i turn it back to horizontal default? Same problem…. I had to bring up the task bar-new task-msconfig. I was on selective startup and the boxies for win.
I was doing some start up troubleshooting but I did not uncheck those boxes???? Hope this works for anyone else! Mmmm…My problem is my task bar is gone…and Ill need my microsoft wod badly..
I also have back-up recovery disks if someome will come out with a I. I can get to task manager and run Explorer, etc. It looks like it may be slowly assuming the crash position…. Not a single site I looked at for help of my missing task bar ever mentioned a function key. Thanks :o. Jim Here is a video from Leo on how to do exactly that.
Basically what happened is that you accidentally dragged it up, now you have to on purpose drag it back down. How do I move my taskbar back to the bottom of the screen. Comments violating those rules will be removed.
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Search Ask Leo! The task bar on my windows XP machine has become hidden, how do I get it back? Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! How do I removed the folder Tasks bar off of the desktop? I like the old way with it in the task bar Reply. Thanks a lot, Nazir! Thanks Nazir! Thanx a million Nazir Reply.
Thanks a lot Nadir! Thanks very much Leo, i have been going crazy without my task bar. Uncheck the extend windows desktop to this monitor , click apply, and my taskbar jumped right back onto my main monitorl Reply. Thread starter martypsu Start date Jan 26, Status Not open for further replies. I am not sure as to whether I cleary explained my situation. The task bar exists, the start button works, and the time and other icons there are displayed, however where the tabs would exist for programs currently running, there is just a gray bar area.
Please let me know if this changes the situation and what I should do otherwise. If found, uninstall the program and reboot. Follow the steps and attach the logs. Similar threads S. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. If something was corrupted and you encouraged some troubles after upgrading you may try to run scanning which check integrity of system files and repair if there is a need.
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