Preserved Topic: Windows XP Lost TaskBar (Page 1 of 1) |
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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Rochester, New York, USA |
posted 01-19-2003 22:24
My families computer somehow lost thier task bar, it is not in the show / hide format. Nothing like that. It is just gone. |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: KC, KS |
posted 01-19-2003 22:50
Did they accidentally drag the taskbar below the screen? If so they should be able to see a little tiny piece of it peeking out from the bottom. Grab that and drag it back up. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Rochester, New York, USA |
posted 01-19-2003 23:04
Thats the thing that really gets me. They didn't. It is just nowhere. Completely gone. The normal line that would be there for the task bar is just not there. |
Neurotic (0) Inmate Newly admitted |
posted 01-19-2003 23:56
See if Ctrl+Esc works. If it doesn't try Ctrl+Alt+Del and click on Processes. Select Explorer.exe and End Task. Use Ctrl+Alt+Del again. Click File > New Task (Run...). Type in explorer.exe. Press Enter. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Switzerland |
posted 01-20-2003 00:16
same thing happend sometimes to my |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 100101010011 <-- right about here |
posted 01-20-2003 03:40
Can't you normally get the startmenu by pressing the Windows key? |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Rochester, New York, USA |
posted 01-20-2003 16:15 |
Bipolar (III) Inmate From: Berlin (almost) |
posted 01-20-2003 17:32
Did you try the way Morgan Ramsay suggested? CTRL-ALT-DEL should bring up a dialog where you can get a Run box via File >> New Task and load explorer.exe which should normally make the taskbar and the desktop icons appear. Or wait - are the desktop icons there and the taskbar isn't? That would make it even stranger . . . |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Rochester, New York, USA |
posted 01-20-2003 18:14 |