re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 1:50 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by helpguy (1 messages posted) Hi, Here is how i solved the same kind of issue. Just open the task manager by hitting the famous CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence. Go the process tab and kill every existing instances of "explorer.exe". (clic the name in the list then the "end process" button) Then go to File / New Task and type explorer.exe And here it is !! To my understanding, the first explorer instance check if the taskbar exists, If there is none, it creates it. It will restore your missing desktop icons as well. This happens quite often to me and this tip worked every time. It is better than rebooting (which usually solves the problem). In your case, as a reboot doesn't fix it, i suspect an explorer is launched automatically at startup. Laurent (aka helpguy) Written in response to: re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (darci: Monday, January 30, 2006 at 8:33 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (darci: Sat, Jan 28, 2006, 5:15 pm) re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Big John: Sat, Jan 28, 2006, 11:34 pm) re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (darci: Sun, Jan 29, 2006, 9:55 am) re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (darci: Mon, Jan 30, 2006, 8:33 pm) re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (helpguy: Thu, Apr 20, 2006, 1:50 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum