Download right-click, Save-As Duration: — 6. Oh, the pain of it all. Guess what? Still no task bar, start menu, etc. And I lost some functions I had before the repair install.
The only thing left is a full Install which will wipe out my existing programs and data. I have them backed up on a gig external drive so that should be preserved. I have not read anybody with a successful fix to this problem yet. Could there be a hardware problem on my HP?
I assumed it was a corrupted Win Sys file but the reinstall should have taken care of that. Last update — at least from me. I did a full reinstall of Win XP Pro from the original CD and that brought back the task bar, start button, clock everything except all programs and Win updates.
The move files back from the backup disk and cull the progams and reinstall those. Big pain but the computer is functional again. Then, uncheck the auto-hide feature.
The one thing I have seen take out explorer. I did a system restore to before google desktop was removed and it fixed it on one computer, another computer remained broken. If it is still possible to access the task manager through Ctrl-Alt-Del while in normal or safe mode, then you can try to run the regedit command, and then check for this entry.
After that, restart. Hope it will help. I seem to have a worse problem here. The problem seemed to occur after I cancelled an installation of google desktop. Greetings from Devon Leo. I have a blue line along the bottom of the screen and no Start button or clock. If I place my mouse pointer on the blue line I get the correct double arrow but I cannot click and drag to expand the line to show these items.
However none of the tasks for open windows show up on the blue bar. If I minimise a window it vanishes — only to be found again by typing Alt Tab. I have tried the Task Manager and restarted exporer.
We were having the same problem and removing Google Desktop did the trick. After logging in, press ctrl-alt-del and select Task Manager. Select Google Desktop and click remove. You may see some information pop ups. Keeping clicking ok untill the app is removed. Restart your computer and your start bar and icons should be back. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Has anyone had this problem before? Thanks a lot. Any ideas? Win XP SP2. Click on the Taskbar option on the top left..
Change any of the settings such as Auto-hide the taskbar.. By changing an option for the Taskbar, you re-enable the taskbar.
We have read and tried most of the above information, pressing ctrl-esc, have also done the alt-ctrl-delete and gone into the New Task run and typed explore, also typed in cmd….
I have tried to do a virus scan, I cannot get into explore7 or get into my incredimail email. I can though send and receive email through hotmail and am able to type in WLM where my friend and I have been trying to troubleshoot this problem.
I did momentarily turn of the wireless fios, in logging into other user the task bar and start menu are there but none functional as I was going to try and do a system restore from there…everything that has been tried just seems to fail. Any ideas would be appreciated. The two monitors are connected via one adapter card. Have also tried most of your advice above, but also not working. Tks for any advice.
Taskbar Repair Tool. Last week for some reason my task bar, start menu and icons all disappeared, all that was on my screen when I signed on was my desktop wallpaper. I tried to do a right click and nothing came up, the only way I was able to go online was through the task manager. As you can imagine, it took me a lot longer to get to programs through the task manager.
I ran my anti-virus scan and there were no viruses detected. I tried to bring up the explorer. I searched for several days online for ideas and tried everything that was suggested but nothing worked. I had to update Windows XP all over again. What worked for me was running control. What I found is Lock the taskbar was checked. When I unchecked it, I could see the very edge of the taskbar at the botton of the screen. I could then find and drag the resize arrow to make the taskbar bigger and presto, the full taskbar is back.
We just had the same problem as Jon, our new graphics card was set to 2 monitors. We had to go into the display right click on the desktop, properties and settings. You may have a 1 2 and 3 showing up, this is for each monitor, 1 should look normal, with any other numbers greyed out.
If 2 is not greyed out this could be your problem. Click on 2 and make sure that extend my windows desktop to this monitor is not checked. Press ctl alt delete and task manager comes up 2. Type regedit and press ok 4. Now on the right hand side double click on the default this brings up a box where you can type the words explorer. Press ok and then exit regedit 9. Restart your computer. Now your back in business! Sometimes the explorer.
Then just another file explorer will show up but the taskbar will still be missing. The problem described here is just a crashed explorer. This solution will not help when experiencing permanent desktop problems e.
It is a quick fix to access all running programs especially programs iconified to the tray , saving all the data and then doing a proper reboot. I have a big problem. When I boot my PC, no taskbar appears.
This happens every time I run explorer. I have also used SpyBot Search and Destroy to remove spyware. I want to avoid reinstalling it as it takes a lot of work and I do not have the install CD. What should I do? Please, help me. It seem that sometimes the file is running, but errors. I noticed that some people mentioned trying it, but they did not make sure the old process was stopped before trying to start it again. Make sure you oare in safe mode.
Otherwise, not all things may be restored. To the person that has lost their printer icon. Have you tried, start, programs, my compouter, printers and fax, view my printer. When the printer icon appears, drag it to the desktop. But I was able to fix the problem by minimizing an open window and watching the direction it moves in as it minimizes.
I dragged the cursor over to that side and sure enough the task bar reappeared and could be repositioned at the bottom.
This has been happening for little over a week. I tried the task manager thing, but nothing happened. We had a virus so we ran anti-virus and when we did it all dissapeared as did the icons.
Its bheen a month and this is the only place i found the answer. Then I kept looking through my google hits page and found an article at Windows Annoyances that said I needed to close all visible Explorer windows first.
So I did Alt-Tab enough times to get to each explorer window and closed them all. If not, it turns itself into a taskbar window at the bottom of the screen, otherwise it opens an ordinary explorer window displaying My Documents.
Clever behaviour in a program, but confusing for us humans. None of your suggestions worked, but it was a learning experience trying them. I finally got fed up that under normal bootup I had no mouse or keyboard control. Ctrl-Esc and Ctrl-Alt-Del did nothing. I got so fed up after multiple reinstalls, etc. And then from the edge of the screen, the mouse pointer appeared. Was this computer setup with 2 monitors? Safe mode was coming up fine, but the extended desktop was on and the monitors were switched.
I moved my test monitor to the other monitor port and there was my desktop. Back in business! Thank you Thank you Thank you! My task bar disappeared on Sunday and I have gone through every program, document, and internet assist site that I could find!
I finally stumbled upon this site and am so relieved!!! Thanks so much for your assistance I had no idea how i could bring my taskbar back and the situation was getting out of hand until i consulted with your website.
I had something similar just now. After minimizing an individual window inside of Adobe Acrobat that was stretched across two unequal sized screens, the whole program window disappeared as well. The Taskbar disappeared as wel. Popped back up. Then go to the Processes and scroll down…. When I unchecked it, the task bar came back. The cause of this problem for me was the computer thinking I had two monitors installed. I believe that this happened because I had used a utility that created multiple virtual desktops.
This page was very helpful to me in identifying the problem. If you have two screens, you might accidentally drag your taskbar into the other screen. To get it back. Posted by: Richie at July 27, AM. Whenever i maximize a screen, the task bar disappears. So i have to make the screen smaller again to see it. Any button i can press ect. Hi, i downloaded a media file about a week ago and had to ask for a codec file, I have AVG running and nothing was alerted, however I seem to have picked up a virus which has completely taken away my desktop icons and toolbar.
I have to use Task manager to do anything and I have scanned the computer umpteen times, the AVG finds items but cant do anything with them, including a file called a. Im at a loss, any help much appreciated. Made a new string there named explorer, with the value of C:Windowsexplorer. I tried all the above… no avail. Ours was a different kind of problem.
Maybe yours changed by accident or by the gamers in your family. I have fought the missing task bar for months, tried everything! Finally got it fixed, go to the following website:.
Something to add to your list of things to try. After closing the Explorer that I just started I noticed in my task list which was sorted by task name that there was still an Explorer running.
With very little to loose I killed it, and than started another Explorer, and I got my Task bar back! Just had a histerical call from a user about this. He said his task bar was missing but he was on dual monitors and his second monitor which had his taskbar was turned off. I just installed the latest updates using Windows 7 and this is happening every time my PC goes to sleep.
Should I try to do a scan? Any idea why it does this? Thanks for your help. God bless you in these End of Days. Once it does you can then change this switch back to whatever you like. I tried the articles way of trying to fix it, although, when I read the comments, someone mentioned that the computer might think 2 monitors are installed, and the task bar is on the other monitor.
Lol Though that was my problem. Silly not-so-technology-savvy-parents. I have been messing with this computer I just reimaged for about an hour and a half. The problem started after I installed the video card driver and service pack 2.
I thought it was a problem with the install. I installed SP3 and still no Task Bar. I read the comments and saw that it might think there are two monitors. That was it ;? Thanks Sigourney…for making me feel like a noob.
A month of hassel for a one minute fix. Please add this soultion to your page please. Went into control panel, display, settings, and then highlighted a second monitor that was listed.
Clicked ok and the taskbar appeared. Hope this helps someone! For a week I had a similar problem with both my task bar and desktop icons disappearing. Everything was ok operating in Safe Mode. Not sure if the same for others but my problem was that in display properties multiple displays was selected but make this main display not selected.
It appears, I am not sure what was triggering it, that the task bar and icons were being directed to a non existent alternative display. The Start button remains, but my taskbar disappears when the screen goes to sleep. The pop-up that appeared while I was looking at your article was not expected or appreciated, but the info is.
A followup to my previous comment. I am running Windows 7. My Start Button remains. I do, and check for explorer. It is running. If I select explorer. I suspect that it moves to the background and is behind my screen background. This ought to be an easy fix, but no such option appears when I right click, as would be reasonable. However, sooner or later I will find it, because I know it exists.
I had the same issue on my laptop. I found and tried a lot of suggestions myself. Then, I just restarted my laptop that worked out well. I checked my desktop full keyboard that turn out to be correct keys for that issue.
That was the first time it ever happened. And then I went into Safe mode, did a few scans got 7 viruses, deleted those. It worked fine for 2 more days.. F11 full screen got pushed by my toddler and made the taskbar disappear when in IE mode, push it again and taskbar returns…. Urgent, this has never happened before. Please help! Thank You Peter Mundreon. I tried everything as well and nothing seemed to work, i tried the start task manager and even that would not show up. Is there anything else i can do to get my menu bar back, cause now i am not able to use my p.
The problem now is that the "Go back to windows 7" is missing it was there earlier. What can I do to go back? I installed Windows 10 this Monday, only 3 days ago hence I'm still in the grace period. Thank you.
As you may know that there is an option for you to downgrade Windows 10 to Windows 7 if you upgraded to Windows If you are not satisfied with Windows 10, this option allows you to backup back to the previous versions. If you backed up Windows. If not, you may find other solutions to revert back to Windows 7. Besides restore from Windows. Certain computers come with media that allows you to restore it to original factory settings and previous operating system that the machine came with.
If your computer has this media, you can restore to factory settings. If you decide to use this solution, you should bear in mind that this process will delete all files from your computer, therefore be sure to create a disk backup. Note: Some brand computers do not have built-in tools to restore to factory settings.
Maybe the most straightforward solution is to reinstall the version of Windows that you were previously using. You may need to download installation media if you do not have one. Then follow the steps below to reinstall Windows 7. Set the advanced drive options and choose a location to install Windows 7 on. Then wait for the process done. No matter to restore to factory settings or reinstall the previous version of Windows, they are not the good enough because all of them will cause data loss on your computer.
They can only be taken as expedients if there is no system image backup or Windows. Therefore, I would like to offer you some tips for the people who want to upgrade Windows — backup your computer before upgrading to Windows
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