Help!!! My taskbar is gone.

[TTM77]

Started when I was minimizing my MSMedia player and don't see the little Media bar in the task bar. So I was disable and re-enable it and it showed up wrongly.. moving it around and now my taskbar is gone.

Pic.
Pic2 (just to show MSword is running but not display b/c the taskbar is gone.)

As you can see, there is a little bar on the right. If I move the "MyToolbar" into it then I will be able to drag that bar out and see the "Start" button. But you see strangly when I press the Window key on the keyboard it pop up the menu on the left. Why would it pop on the left if the bar is suppositly on the right. I can't drag it our or anything.

Things I have tried:
1) Redo enable/disable MSMedia
2) Drag the bar out
3) Hide/unhide the bar
4) Dis/Enable verious tool bars (It will show up the tool bar but still no task bar)
5) Tried moving the bar on each corner (only able to move if there is a toolbar enable in there).
6) Restart
7) Go into Task manager > Kill Explorer, then re-run explorer
8) Switch on/off the auto hide
9) Search online (all I found are tricks about hidden taskbar, I've tried them too just for the hel of it)

This is all I can remember that I've tried.

HELP!!!

Only way I can switch between programs now is Alt+Tab

 

[kinghill]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=50&threadid=1605319&enterthread=y

 

[TTM77]

Oops, wrong forum. Lets see if I can move it.

Edit: Don't see how to move it. I guess IM the mod.
Edit: Thanks AnandTech Mod. You guys R awsome.

 

[ojai00]

Do you have another account on the computer that you can log on with? If that account does not have the problem, your profile might be corrupt. Recreate it and see if you still have the problem.

 

[TTM77]

That's one of the solution that I don't like very much. If I do then everything I modify like in MSOutlook will be gone. The entire profile will be gone.

I did try to login as Admin and it works just fine.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: TTM77
That's one of the solution that I don't like very much. If I do then everything I modify like in MSOutlook will be gone. The entire profile will be gone.

I did try to login as Admin and it works just fine.

You shouldn't have to lose anything if you do it right. Just copy your outlook.pst file, my docs, favorites, etc from that profile to a backup folder. That or rename the profile ( \docs & settings\profilename ) to something else, blow it away in profiles, and let it get recreated.

 

[TTM77]

Originally posted by: Robor

Originally posted by: TTM77
That's one of the solution that I don't like very much. If I do then everything I modify like in MSOutlook will be gone. The entire profile will be gone.

I did try to login as Admin and it works just fine.

You shouldn't have to lose anything if you do it right. Just copy your outlook.pst file, my docs, favorites, etc from that profile to a backup folder. That or rename the profile ( \docs & settings\profilename ) to something else, blow it away in profiles, and let it get recreated.

I'll try and copy one folder at a time back to see where exactly is this ****** taskbar setting is. I hope it's not in the registry.

But anyway, this is my work PC and currently I am working on a project that urgently need to go out. I'll try it when I can. Thanks.

 

[bruceb]

It's not missing .. you just moved it to the Left edge of the Screen
I think you can move it Right Click on a Blank Area of it & just
Drag it back to the Bottom ... you can also Resize it Vertically
so it is back to One Line again .... after it is back where you
want it, Lock the Taskbar so you won't move it again by mistake.

 

[TTM77]

Originally posted by: bruceb
It's not missing .. you just moved it to the Left edge of the Screen
I think you can move it Right Click on a Blank Area of it & just
Drag it back to the Bottom ... you can also Resize it Vertically
so it is back to One Line again .... after it is back where you
want it, Lock the Taskbar so you won't move it again by mistake.

That was the first thing I tried. And many websites I found refer to this fix.

 

[bruceb]

Let us know what fixed it
It sure looks like you just moved it to the wrong place

 

[TTM77]

The first pic, if I move that tool bar into it then it will show the start button. And strangly the start button will be right there on top of that little bar you see in the first pic. But if I move the tool bar out like you see in the first pic and press the window key on the keyboard it will display the menu on the left. Usually it will display the menu where the "Start" button is. But here without moving it to the left, it will show up in the left. As you can see there is nothing on the left.

I even try changing the screen size hopping it's somewhere off the screen, but that didn't help either.

I never thought it's possible to make the task bar totally disappear like this. But there you see it. Or what should I say "Not" see it.

The second pic, as you see the media player is on top instead of being push down to the bottom by the task bar. All the icons to the left of that media player are icons of that tool bar.

This is driving me off the wall and I am too busy to play with it.

 

[bruceb]

See this link:

Taskbar repair tool

Lots of tools there that will help you get that Taskbar back to the
way it should be

 

[TTM77]

Originally posted by: bruceb
See this link:

Taskbar repair tool

Lots of tools there that will help you get that Taskbar back to the
way it should be

Wow.. thanks buddy. That first fix did it.
Here is how it suppose to look. Someone on Anandtech suggested that this way save the most space. I agree nobody really use that much horizontal space.
The bar to the left is my personal toolbar. The bar to the right (small icons) is the task bar.

Many thanks bruceb for lifting this curse. :thumbsup:

 

[TTM77]

P1 = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\"

WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoSetTaskbar", 0, "REG_DWORD"
WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoToolbarsOnTaskbar", 0, "REG_DWORD"
WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoToolbarsOnTaskbar", 0, "REG_DWORD"
WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "NoSetTaskbar",0,"REG_DWORD"

I think one of these commands does it. Not gonna bother to go play with it... just yet.

 

[bruceb]

Glad you fixed it

 

[TonyRic]

Good omen, try out Linux. lol Glad you fixed it.