I have a laptop with WinXP home Ed. and yesterday when I was shouting it down it took a lot to so that so I forced It by pressing the On/Off button until it shouts down. Then when I turned on the lap the Taskbar was gone! there was only the "Quick Lunch" bar. I opened a programs or a folder it was not displayed in any place.\n\nThen, I removed the quick lunch bar by draggin it out and the whole winxp bar desapeared even if I place the mouse over where it should be.\n\nI don't consider myself a noob in computers because I already built my own PC, but this is the first time I see this.\n\nIs it possible to restore it?
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Have you tried system restore?
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I fyour taskbar's been moved from the original location, you can move it back by right-clicking on any part of it which is tan & unchecking Lock the Toolbars.  Then you can move it wherever you wish.
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start menu does not have option to turn on or off. Therefore, if it is disappear, you probably delete one or many system file. Recover the windows to get it back. How?\nPut windows XP CDrom into PC, turn on you PC, choose fix windows, NOT install new windows, so all your installed softwares and documents stayed the same, it only fix the problem.
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Hi,\nFor the most part, if you <right-click> on the task bar.  You should see the option for Task Manager to start up.\nGood luck.
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Win XP, that means you have System restore, use it, \nAccesories--------->System Tools------------>System restore.
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Try to have a clean install of winxp. Refer to this site:\n\nhttp://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm\n\nIt will reinstall all XP system files, but will not touch your installed programs, and other personal documents you have
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Put the pointer on a clear spot and click/hold it down...\n\nDrag it to the right and release.\n\nIf that doesn't work...right click on it and uncheck "lock the taskbar" and try again
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i have never seen this problem before - maybe you could be more detailed as to what it IS doing?\n\n//edit//\nafter seeing that picture, i believe i understand whats going on....play around with those dotted-line borders, and move them until you can see the taskbar window pane icons (the windows you have running and the windows you have up)\nbasically all that seems to have happened is that that specific part of the taskbar is being hidden due to the enlarged size of other parts (quick launch)\n\nif you still cant seem to get it, email me on superXero07@comcast.net, i should be able to help ya
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Click on the bar (any clear space not occupied by a button) and then you can drag it back the bottom.\n\nIf this doesn't work then you need to unlock the taskbar. To do this right-click on the bar, and then deselect the "Lock Toolbar option"
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At the top of your window, click View, then Toolbars and then Standard Buttons, that should bring that bar back
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Okay, first, to get the Yahoo Toolbar back:\n\n1. Right click on the Google Toolbar, a little menu should turn up\n2. On that menu, you should see the word Google with a tick next to it, click Google should remove the tip and hide that toolbar\n3. In the same menu, you should see the Yahoo toolbar, turn it on by clicking on it.\n\nTo your other question, in a word, No. The problem is that alot of software doesn't bother to support Windows user accounts, meaning that if one user installs it, everyone gets it. About all you could do is change the rights on your stepdaughter's account and take away her ability to install things at all, but I don't really think that's the kind of thing your after....\n\n(As a personal aside, I've found the Google toolbar alot more useful for websearches than the Yahoo one, so you may want to try it out. I haven't used the Yahoo one for a long time though, so it may be better now.)
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0.don't worry!\n1.Press Alt+Ctrl+Delete OR Ctrl+Shift+Esc.\n2.in "Windows task manager" in "file" menu click "new task (run...)"\n3.type "explorer.exe" and click OK.\nI'm sure it'll solve your problem in WinXP!
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I will be guiding you on my Win 2000 but it's almost the same.\nGo to My Computer -> right click -> Properties.\nMove through the tabs until you see something like "Startup and Recovery". It should be in the "Advanced" tab or something close to it.\nThere you can uncheck the option to detect existing operating systems.Afterwards it will be OK and it won't show up anymore.\n\nYou might want to make sure you format your drive on the next reinstall of windows XP (it will happen sooner or later :) )\n\nGood Luck to you
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Use the Windows "Flag" key to pull up the start menu\n\nSelect setting\n\nSelect Taskbar...\n\nChange the options....
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Even if you click exit on them, they will return because most of them are automatically starting up. If you need the program running, most will have a "hide taskbar icon" somewhere in the preferences. Also, look for something like "automatically  startup with windows".\n\nYou can download a free utility called Winpatrol at http://www.winpatrol.com where you can disable various startups from hidden places on your computer.
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To make this a bit less annoying, first off, instead of rebooting, try Ctrl + Alt + Del to access the task manager, then end the explorer.exe, if listed.  Then go to File - New Task (Run) and type 'explorer.exe' and hit enter to get everything running again, hopefully.  At least until you try to right-click again.  This should help hold you over.\n\nGo to Start - Run and type sfc.exe /scannow ---then hit Enter.\n\nAlso click here to download a registry patch that will disable the right-click function of XP.\nhttp://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/contextmenuundo.reg\n\n(I believe that you would have to reboot the computer for this to apply, but I would try first without rebooting)\n\nThen click here to reenable it.\nhttp://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/contextmenu.reg\n\nI thought this would be much easier than editing the registry.  Hope this works for you, it has for others.  Good luck.
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I had this and I think I went into Windows, then System 32, and selected Taskmgr and clicked on Run and that brought it back. Hope this helped.