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    Why does my taskbar keep locking?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by akwit, Sep 8, 2011.

  1. akwit

    akwit Notebook Deity

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    I prefer to have my taskbar "hidden" or "unlocked" and over the past month or so and, what seems to be very random-it will out of nowhere, just lock in place.

    No matter what I do, I cant get it to unlock. It forces me to have to restart my computer.

    What could be causing this?
     
    akwit, Sep 8, 2011
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  2. anseio

    anseio All ways are my ways.

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    I don't know a cause or solution to your problem, but...

    rather than reboot, you can simply restart your Desktop Window Manager service and it should reset things.

    Start > Services (right click and run as administrator, just in case) > navigate to Desktop Window Manager Session Manager > restart this service
     
    anseio, Sep 8, 2011
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  3. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    Got a restore point? Running a virus scan?

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Sep 8, 2011
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  4. akwit

    akwit Notebook Deity

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    That unfortunately didnt do anything.
     
    akwit, Sep 9, 2011
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  5. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    The taskbar is part of windows explorer, not the window manager. You should just need to kill any instance of explorer from the task manager, and then go to Options->Run and run a new copy of explorer.

    As to why it's crashing... that's another issue. Have you installed or changed anything recently?
     
    Pitabred, Sep 9, 2011
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  6. JOSEA

    JOSEA NONE

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    Not to ask the obvious but when it happens does anything get logged in event viewer?
     
    JOSEA, Sep 9, 2011
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