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re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 12:14 pm Posted by Mark (1809 messages posted) 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 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 2:30 pm Posted by Bob Warner (3 messages posted) Thanks for your post, well the first time I re-installed I did it as an upgrade, thinking that this would solve the problem by repairing any corrupt file. The second time I ran the install as a repair and was disappointed when that didn't work. I will try the method in the link you provided and post the results later. So glad I got this laptop last fall... On Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 12:14 pm, Mark wrote: >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 > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 7:22 pm Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7097 messages posted) I recently ran across the same thing on a customer's computer. Tried every trick in the book, new users, registry hacks, reinstalls, etc etc. In the end, I offloaded the files to be saved and did a clean installation. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' Monday, February 6, 2006 at 6:51 am Posted by Bob Warner (3 messages posted) Well here is the long way around the horn fix. Recently I installed a second hard drive, that drive is now my boot drive. The old drive is still active as all of my files are still on it. Over time I can get them moved onto the new drive. I still want to find out why the taskbar and icons are missing on the C drive so if I can figure it out, I will post again. I think it is a registry problem and I am going to try and fix it using some of the posts I found here. Thanks everybody! Bob On Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 7:22 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >I recently ran across the same thing on a customer's computer. Tried every trick >in the book, new users, registry hacks, reinstalls, etc etc. > >In the end, I offloaded the files to be saved and did a clean installation. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' Monday, May 8, 2006 at 2:48 pm Posted by AnJens (1 messages posted) There is a vbs script on following site, which fixed the problem for me: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm it does following: 'xp_taskbar_desktop_fixall.vbs - Repairs the Taskbar when minimized programs don't show. '© Kelly Theriot and Doug Knox - 8/22/2003 Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Message = "To work correctly, the script will close" & vbCR Message = Message & "and restart the Windows Explorer shell." & vbCR Message = Message & "This will not harm your system." & vbCR & vbCR Message = Message & "Continue?" X = MsgBox(Message, vbYesNo, "Notice") If X = 6 Then On Error Resume Next WshShell.RegDelete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2\" WshShell.RegDelete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StreamMRU\" WshShell.RegDelete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop\" WshShell.RegDelete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Explorer Bars\{32683183-48a0-441b-a342-7c2a440a9478}\BarSize" P1 = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoBandCustomize", 0, "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoMovingBands", 0, "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoCloseDragDropBands", 0, "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoSetTaskbar", 0, "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoToolbarsOnTaskbar", 0, "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoSaveSettings",0,"REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoToolbarsOnTaskbar", 0, "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoSetTaskbar",0,"REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoActiveDesktop",0,"REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "ClassicShell",0,"REG_DWORD" p1 = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\LocalUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\" WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoCloseDragDropBands", 0, "REG_DWORD" WshShell.RegDelete p1 & "NoMovingBands" p1 = "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell" WshShell.RegWrite p1, "explorer.exe", "REG_SZ" p1 = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Explorer Bars\{32683183-48a0-441b-a342-7c2a440a9478}\" WshShell.RegDelete p1 & "BarSize" WshShell.RegWrite p1, "Media Band", "REG_SZ" On Error Goto 0 For Each Process in GetObject("winmgmts:"). _ ExecQuery ("select * from Win32_Process where name='explorer.exe'") Process.terminate(0) Next MsgBox "Finished." & vbcr & vbcr & "© Kelly Theriot and Doug Knox", 4096, "Done" Else MsgBox "No changes were made to your system." & vbcr & vbcr & "© Kelly Theriot and Doug Knox", 4096, "User Cancelled" End If [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'My Taskbar has disappeared - how do I get it back?' Friday, February 8, 2008 at 8:13 am Posted by Mitch (1 messages posted) Hi Bob I just had a similar experience with my Task bar disappearing as well. At the bottom of the screen if you can see a grey strip right click on it and it should display the properties of the taskbar. Then go to "Toolbars" and select "Destop" then try to resize your taskbar. Before I did this step I was unable to resize the Taskbar. I believe that there may have been something on your taskbar that may have been removed incorectly thus causing all of this grief. Best of luck with this 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 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum