I cannot understand why a reinstall did not rectify the problem. When you say "reinstall", 
did you boot off the CD or did you reinstall while Windows was active? The following 
site describes how to clean reinstall and after performing that procedure, you should 
be OK.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html







On Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 9:37 am, Bob Warner wrote:

>I have a question about My 

>Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?:


>

>So this happened to me yesterday. No taskbar, no desktop icons. Task manager works 

>and it looks as thought it will launch programs but I sure would like to have the 

>start button and icons back. This happened when I was uninstalling and reinstalling 

>Musicmatch software. The system began to hang up after re-install so I decided to 

>use system restore and take it back to when the computer wasn't hanging up. Well 

>it hung up in the middle of the system restore and after 8 hours I had to shut the 

>machine down. I re-started and it gave me the message that the system was successfully 

>restored but sadly, that is when the trouble really began. So here's what I have 

>done so far and none of it has worked:

>Downloaded and ran the kellys- korner fix, no good.

>downloaded and ran the shellreg fix, no good

>Re-installed Windows XP, no good,

>Re-installed Windows XP again, no good.

>Someone in another forum mentioned deleteing the microsoft key in the registry, 
I 

>am concerned about trying that, since I am a little hazy about what the "key" is. 

>Someone else mentioned deleting my identity, I have no idea how to make that work. 

>Boy any advice you guys might have is greatly appreciated.  Thanks,

>Bob 

>

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