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re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?'
Monday, December 25, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Rev.Dr. Spyder X
(1 messages posted)
A very big Happy Holidays and a bigger thank you for figuring out the taskbar problem
for me! I've tried all these others but the objectdock was my problem. Thanks again!
On Monday, December 11, 2006 at 6:51 am, tina wrote:
>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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