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re: Windows Update made my taskbar, tray and quick launch unresponsive Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 6:46 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) First uninstall the update and see if it goes away. On Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 6:29 pm, Dennis wrote: >Windows Update just updated features on my system (running Vista). Since the update >has installed and PC rebooted, my taskbar is unresponsive. I cannot click on any >of the windows minimized on the taskbar, cannot open anything in the tray, and cannot >use the quick launch. Start button does work. I'm not sure what the problem is, >and cannot seem to fix it. I try to use system restore, and after restarting, restore >says there was an unspecified error and did not restore. What can I do to use my >taskbar again? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Update made my taskbar, tray and quick launch unresponsive Monday, October 26, 2009 at 8:14 am Posted by Dennis (15 messages posted) I uninstalled the update (was security update kb974455). I still don't have access to my taskbar. I can see it, everything looks fine, but I can't click on any windows, right or left click anything, launch from my system tray or quick start. Maybe the update did something to disable that, and uninstaling the update didn't change it back? On Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 6:46 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >First uninstall the update and see if it goes away. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Update made my taskbar, tray and quick launch unresponsive Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:51 am Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) try a system restore to before the update was installed, might fix it. On Monday, October 26, 2009 at 8:14 am, Dennis wrote: >I uninstalled the update (was security update kb974455). I still don't have access >to my taskbar. > >I can see it, everything looks fine, but I can't click on any windows, right or left >click anything, launch from my system tray or quick start. > >Maybe the update did something to disable that, and uninstaling the update didn't >change it back? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Update made my taskbar, tray and quick launch unresponsive Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:06 am Posted by Dennis (15 messages posted) That's been one of the problems. I try system restore, it goes through the whole process, and after rebooting, it says: "System restore did not complete. Unspecified error. Run system restore again and choose a different restore point." I've run it about 10 times now, using all my restore points. Get the same error every time. I don't want to have to reinstall windows, but starting to look like it. Also, for safe measures I ran my antivirus. No problems there either. However it works out, thanks for your help. On Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:51 am, Adam Bradley wrote: >try a system restore to before the update was installed, might fix it. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Update made my taskbar, tray and quick launch unresponsive Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:15 am Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) Try running in safe mode if you have not already, see if it happens there to. Also worth a try to uninstall and reinstall your video card in device manager, something might have messed up the video card driver and that can cause odd effects. On Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:06 am, Dennis wrote: > >That's been one of the problems. I try system restore, it goes through the whole >process, and after rebooting, it says: > >"System restore did not complete. Unspecified error. Run system restore again and >choose a different restore point." > >I've run it about 10 times now, using all my restore points. Get the same error >every time. > >I don't want to have to reinstall windows, but starting to look like it. > >Also, for safe measures I ran my antivirus. No problems there either. > >However it works out, thanks for your help. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum