Taskbar.....missing?

I just did a reboot of my laptop, it was on for about a week, and getting sluggish. Right after the boot, I got one of those Windows ScanDisk scans, I don't usually get those, so I just let it run. After that, Windows ran, and I noticed, my whole taskbar was gone!

This is not the first time, it happened last month, I had to do a system restore to get it working again, but I don't want to do that again.

Pressing the Windows button only shows the start menu, no taskbar. Going to properties and making it not auto-hide leaves a space for it but nothing is there, just my background!

Help?

 

Man oh man, this happens to me a lot and I've noticed this happens on laptops a lot. I'm thinking it has to do with the different powerstates our laptops have, since my desktop has never boggled up like that.

By powerstates I mean being plugged in and running on batteries. Why should this have an impact on windows and software? I don't know, maybe it has to do with a slight variance in voltages that causes ram or cpu errors in the kernel, because this DOES happen on any computer if voltages are all over the place or there isn't enough power.

The way I've managed to get past this taskbar disappearance act is to just keep restarting, powering down and booting up. For me it eventually fixes itself.

I know, not much help is it? Hahaha. Maybe try uninstalling stuff and reinstalling it back, because this is obviously a software conflict somewhere.

Did you try "looking" for it? As in placing your cursor at the bottom of your screen to see if it's there, but just moved down? You know what I mean? Like how you can unlock the taskbar and increase it's size by stretching it or the opposite and making it disappear.

Other than the stuff mentioned above, I'd have to say, reinstall windows or do a repair of it.

Dang that sucks. I'm really disappointed in the way laptops mess with your software. Yes there may be people out there that have NEVER had problems with their laptops acting up, but from my experience with laptops and desktops, laptops just don't seem to like being bootedup/shutdown plugged in then shutdown/bootedup on battery. So weird.

Cheers, hope that helps Coriooreo.

Mike

 

Same thing happened to me to today oddly. Except the task bar was still there. I hate those scans that it does...ugh

 

Thanks for the help.

Hmmmm, this doesn't happen often though, I probrably will just restart and reboot a few times.

 

never has happened to me, can't help you though, sounds odd though.

 

Maybe if you start task manager and kill explorer.exe Windows shell and then again run it from the menu. Does this change anything?

Cheers,

 

I tried that, I also tried a Taskbar refresher program from Kelly's Korner XP, it didn't help much.

edit: Forgot to mention, doing that brings the taskbar back...for a few secnds, then disappears again!

 

Hrmm. Virus?

Man that's strange, but I'm thinking it's still a software conflict.

Try making a new account on your laptop and see if the taskbar is okay there. If it is then something's wrong with your user config or something.

I'm not too sure about this but can't you just make a new user account and transfer everything over to it and then delete your current account if that brings back your taskbar?

 

Did a system restore, its fine now

Guess next time I'll just do the same, It could of been a corrupt explorer?

 

Good to hear you've fixed your problem.

Too bad I don't use system restore on my systems.