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re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?'
Monday, December 11, 2006 at 6:51 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by tina
(1 messages posted)
None of the mentioned strategies helped resolving the problem in my case, although
some led to a transient reappearance of the taskbar before it disappeared again.
And no, it wasn't simply hidden, although yes, this option was activated, but deactivating
it didn't bring the taskbar back.
However, I realized that the taskbar was present at system startup until the launch
of a certain program. In my case this was ObjectDock (from Stardock). Somehow my
user profile of ObjectDock has been corrupted and subsequently the taskbar option
of this program was set to remove the taskbar. Closing this process via the task-manager,
closing explorer.exe and restarting explorer.exe via >file >new task brought my taskbar
back.
So, if you don't know how to resolve the issue, try to close all processes of accessory
programs that potentially alter your taskbar, then close explorer.exe (all via the
task-manager) and finally relaunch explorer.exe as described.
If this didn't work I would suggest to "repair" your Windows XP as a last resort.
A broken registry could be the cause if it's not a common software-interference problem.
Alternatively you could try to delete your XP user profile (after backing up user
data in the hidden folder "application data" under >C: >documents and settings >respective
user) and create a new one. This will only work if the user is not "the" Administrator
(many users can be Administrator but only one user can be "the" Administrator, i.e.
named Administrator besides having Administrator privileges...if you know what I
mean).
GOOD LUCK!!!
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