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Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 11:56 am
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Posted by ben (1 messages posted)

OK, here's what worked for me. My taskbar was missing, as were my desktop icons. None of the key combinations would bring up a start menu, and the kelly's korner download did nothing, either. Here's what I did: Open an Explorer window. If you can't get to one, then here's how to get one from IE (and Firefox, too, I think). Open the file menu (Page in IE7), and select "Save As". This will bring up a save dialog box. Find a folder icon, and right-click on it to bring up a context menu. Select "Explore", and voila! Your have a file explorer open. Next, navigate to the control panel and open "Taskbar and Start Menu". Change a setting (I toggled "Hide Inactive Icons") and click "Apply". It seems that Windows applying settings to the taskbar restores it. Hope this helps someone!

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Jacque Goar: Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 12:52 pm)

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Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Ville Paakkinen: Wed, Nov 21, 2001, 12:24 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Derek: Wed, Nov 21, 2001, 9:45 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (kots: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 8:16 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (maria: Sun, Jan 27, 2008, 7:51 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Ginna: Mon, Sep 22, 2008, 1:58 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Mark: Fri, Nov 23, 2001, 3:59 pm)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (mikester10: Sat, May 11, 2002, 6:18 pm)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (perry: Fri, Aug 4, 2006, 1:19 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Luke Bacon: Mon, Aug 28, 2006, 2:16 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Liz: Wed, Sep 13, 2006, 11:45 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (N.: Mon, Dec 23, 2002, 8:24 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (martin: Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 11:50 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Kris: Sat, Oct 16, 2004, 3:05 pm)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (K: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 6:12 pm)

Yes! Thank you! (Trish: Tue, Dec 12, 2006, 1:05 am)

re: Yes! Thank you! (maria: Sun, Jan 27, 2008, 7:29 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Stacey: Sun, Aug 26, 2007, 3:14 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Ed R: Tue, Aug 28, 2007, 7:55 am)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Stacey: Fri, Aug 29, 2003, 7:15 am)

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re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Jacque Goar: Sun, Nov 18, 2007, 12:52 pm)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (ben: Thu, Dec 13, 2007, 11:56 am)

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re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (Martin: Tue, Sep 19, 2006, 2:03 pm)

re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' (A.R.: Mon, Oct 30, 2006, 10:28 am)

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Problem solved with one of the scripts (Julesybabes: Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 4:54 am)

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