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My taskbar is GONE.
Chop Logic
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So I turned on my computer this morning, and my taskbar was gone. Usually it's at the bottom of the screen hidden, and when I roll my mouse over the bottom edge of the screen, it pops up.
Not today. So I restarted my computer and it still won't come up. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
Not today. So I restarted my computer and it still won't come up. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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I manually shut down my computer last night. That could have something to do with it, but I thought that by reseting it that would ahve fixed any problems caused by the illegal shutdown. Maybe not?
EDIT: looks like someone else suggested checking on explorer before i was able to finish up my post.
-If I press the windows key, the menu comes up as if I had just clicked the start button, but no taskbar comes up.
-If I kill explorer.exe and then go to new task, run explorer again, the startbar comes up for a second, but my mouse is an hourglass so I can't click on it, and then once my mouse stops being an hourglass, the taskbar goes back down and I can't get it back up.
Yes, because when I did the restart explorer.exe thing, the taskbar was at the bottom.
Nope. My taskbar has always been set to autohide, so when the mouse isn't over it, it isnt there. When I restart explorer.exe, it comes back and then I see it go back down as if it's hiding again, but it won't come back up.
I'm going to try shutting down the computer, leaving it off for a few minutes, and then booting it back up. We'll see what happens.
Thanks for all the help guys.
Frylock - I don't think the monitor got readjusted because when I maximize a window (like firefox), the bottom of the window is still right at the bottom of the screen. Also, when I try and move my mouse as far down as it will go, it never goes 100% offscreen, I can always see the tip.
This is really odd, I've never had this type of problem on this computer before, and any problems I have had like this, I've solved by just restarting.
Doesn't matter. It can happen anytime... Even if you're in bed, sleeping... Or out to eat... Viruses can attack anytime of the day.
This would explain why the start menu opens up when pressing the windows key, but disappears once you click off of it.
Just don't rule this out. It could have moved to any of the sides and then re-sized somehow, so bring your mouse to the far extremes of the all four sides to see if the double re-size arrow pops up.
Yeah, when I said the symptoms were exactly the same I meant it. When this happened to me it also took a restart after a lan party where I assume I picked it up.
Tomorow afternoon when I have sone time I'll try and figure this out. Thanks a lot for all the advice guys. I'll post again tomorow.
You can try turning off auto-hide by going to the control panel and then to "Taskbar and Start Menu". You should be able to get to the control panel either by using the windows key, or by doing a ctrl-alt-delete, new task..., and putting "control" in the run box.
good luck
It still sounds like you managed to minimize the taskbar. I have mine set to autohide too, and a couple of times, somehow it's been dragged all the way down. I can't provide any explanation how, it's just happened, and all the stuff you've described (like the start menu) are exactly what it's like when that happens.
Edit: You can also just run the first VBScript linked on that page. I took a look at it and it just deletes and recreates some regkeys, nothing harmful.
I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?