Technology in terms you understand. Sign up for the Confident Computing newsletter for weekly solutions to make your life easier. Click here and get The Ask Leo! Become a Patron of Ask Leo! If that works, use Taskbar settings to reconfigure the taskbar so you can see it. If none of this resolves the issue, you may need to refresh or reset Windows.
Click on Task Manager. Then, on the File menu, select Run New Task. As always, I strongly recommend you back up before attempting any of these approaches. My first recommendation is to run an up-to-date anti-malware scan.
More options for the MpCmdRun command can be found here. That will check for missing or damaged files in Windows and repair or replace them if possible.
Next, I would attempt a refresh of Windows 10 using one of the techniques outlined in Refreshing Windows 10 Without a Reinstall or Reset. Finally, you may be faced with re-installing or resetting Windows. How Do I Reset Windows 10? The default view is not to have a taskbar, and even when you do, there may not be a Start button.
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Oh, the pain of it all. Guess what? Still no task bar, start menu, etc. And I lost some functions I had before the repair install. The only thing left is a full Install which will wipe out my existing programs and data. I have them backed up on a gig external drive so that should be preserved. I have not read anybody with a successful fix to this problem yet. Could there be a hardware problem on my HP? I assumed it was a corrupted Win Sys file but the reinstall should have taken care of that.
Last update — at least from me. I did a full reinstall of Win XP Pro from the original CD and that brought back the task bar, start button, clock everything except all programs and Win updates. The move files back from the backup disk and cull the progams and reinstall those. Big pain but the computer is functional again.
Then, uncheck the auto-hide feature. The one thing I have seen take out explorer. I did a system restore to before google desktop was removed and it fixed it on one computer, another computer remained broken. If it is still possible to access the task manager through Ctrl-Alt-Del while in normal or safe mode, then you can try to run the regedit command, and then check for this entry.
After that, restart. Hope it will help. I seem to have a worse problem here. The problem seemed to occur after I cancelled an installation of google desktop. Greetings from Devon Leo.
I have a blue line along the bottom of the screen and no Start button or clock. If I place my mouse pointer on the blue line I get the correct double arrow but I cannot click and drag to expand the line to show these items.
However none of the tasks for open windows show up on the blue bar. If I minimise a window it vanishes — only to be found again by typing Alt Tab. I have tried the Task Manager and restarted exporer. We were having the same problem and removing Google Desktop did the trick. After logging in, press ctrl-alt-del and select Task Manager. Select Google Desktop and click remove. You may see some information pop ups.
Keeping clicking ok untill the app is removed. Restart your computer and your start bar and icons should be back. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Has anyone had this problem before? Thanks a lot. Any ideas? Win XP SP2. Click on the Taskbar option on the top left.. Change any of the settings such as Auto-hide the taskbar.. By changing an option for the Taskbar, you re-enable the taskbar.
We have read and tried most of the above information, pressing ctrl-esc, have also done the alt-ctrl-delete and gone into the New Task run and typed explore, also typed in cmd…. I have tried to do a virus scan, I cannot get into explore7 or get into my incredimail email. I can though send and receive email through hotmail and am able to type in WLM where my friend and I have been trying to troubleshoot this problem.
I did momentarily turn of the wireless fios, in logging into other user the task bar and start menu are there but none functional as I was going to try and do a system restore from there…everything that has been tried just seems to fail.
Any ideas would be appreciated. The two monitors are connected via one adapter card. Have also tried most of your advice above, but also not working. Tks for any advice. Taskbar Repair Tool. Last week for some reason my task bar, start menu and icons all disappeared, all that was on my screen when I signed on was my desktop wallpaper. I tried to do a right click and nothing came up, the only way I was able to go online was through the task manager. As you can imagine, it took me a lot longer to get to programs through the task manager.
I ran my anti-virus scan and there were no viruses detected. I tried to bring up the explorer. I searched for several days online for ideas and tried everything that was suggested but nothing worked. I had to update Windows XP all over again. What worked for me was running control. What I found is Lock the taskbar was checked.
When I unchecked it, I could see the very edge of the taskbar at the botton of the screen. I could then find and drag the resize arrow to make the taskbar bigger and presto, the full taskbar is back. We just had the same problem as Jon, our new graphics card was set to 2 monitors. We had to go into the display right click on the desktop, properties and settings.
You may have a 1 2 and 3 showing up, this is for each monitor, 1 should look normal, with any other numbers greyed out. If 2 is not greyed out this could be your problem. Click on 2 and make sure that extend my windows desktop to this monitor is not checked.
Press ctl alt delete and task manager comes up 2. Type regedit and press ok 4. Now on the right hand side double click on the default this brings up a box where you can type the words explorer. Press ok and then exit regedit 9. Restart your computer. Now your back in business! Sometimes the explorer. Then just another file explorer will show up but the taskbar will still be missing.
The problem described here is just a crashed explorer. This solution will not help when experiencing permanent desktop problems e. It is a quick fix to access all running programs especially programs iconified to the tray , saving all the data and then doing a proper reboot.
I have a big problem. When I boot my PC, no taskbar appears. This happens every time I run explorer. I have also used SpyBot Search and Destroy to remove spyware. I want to avoid reinstalling it as it takes a lot of work and I do not have the install CD. What should I do? Please, help me. It seem that sometimes the file is running, but errors. I noticed that some people mentioned trying it, but they did not make sure the old process was stopped before trying to start it again.
Make sure you oare in safe mode. Otherwise, not all things may be restored. To the person that has lost their printer icon. Have you tried, start, programs, my compouter, printers and fax, view my printer. When the printer icon appears, drag it to the desktop. But I was able to fix the problem by minimizing an open window and watching the direction it moves in as it minimizes. I dragged the cursor over to that side and sure enough the task bar reappeared and could be repositioned at the bottom.
This has been happening for little over a week. I tried the task manager thing, but nothing happened. We had a virus so we ran anti-virus and when we did it all dissapeared as did the icons. Its bheen a month and this is the only place i found the answer.
Then I kept looking through my google hits page and found an article at Windows Annoyances that said I needed to close all visible Explorer windows first. So I did Alt-Tab enough times to get to each explorer window and closed them all. If not, it turns itself into a taskbar window at the bottom of the screen, otherwise it opens an ordinary explorer window displaying My Documents.
Clever behaviour in a program, but confusing for us humans. None of your suggestions worked, but it was a learning experience trying them. I finally got fed up that under normal bootup I had no mouse or keyboard control. Ctrl-Esc and Ctrl-Alt-Del did nothing. I got so fed up after multiple reinstalls, etc.
And then from the edge of the screen, the mouse pointer appeared. Was this computer setup with 2 monitors? Safe mode was coming up fine, but the extended desktop was on and the monitors were switched.
Details required :. Cancel Submit. Press F Does that help? How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Here's the most likely: The task bar is resizable, like a window. You may have accidentally resized it to zero lines high. Put the cursor on the bottom of the screen and move it up and down slightly until it turns into a double-headed arrow. Then click and drag it to the size you want.
If that doesn't work, it may be zero lines high on another side of the screen, so try on all four sides. Put the mouse pointer on the bottom border of your screen. If the pointer turns into a double-arrow , click and drag upwards. If your taskbar isn't hiding at the bottom of the screen, try moving the mouse to the right, left, and top edges, looking for the double-arrow.
Press and hold the Windows logo key on your keyword, then tap the P key to bring up the presentation display mode options. Make sure "Computer only" or "PC screen only" is selected.
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