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XP - Taskbar disappears

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by hhhammer

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I attempted to make the taskbar 2 rows in width and the lock it. Now, each time I shut down and/or restart it disappears completely and I have to drag it back into existence. It also now does it with both a single or double row taskbar. Any ideas? Locking and unlocking the taskbar doesn't seem to work but for the current session.

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by mrgimp83

The only thing I can think of is that the Auto Hide is checked ON. If you know that it is NOT CHECKED, the disregard this. If you DO NOT know if it is checked or not, do this...

1. Right click the Taskbar
2. Click PROPERTIES
3. Check to make sure the AUTO HIDE is not checked. If it is, UNCHECK it. If it is not checked, then I really don't know what is wrong. Afterall, I am just a Web Designer.

LOL

Derrell Victory

by hhhammer

Nope, Auto Hide is not on... and it still is doing it. Thanks for the try... hope your web designing goes better than the tech support... LOL

Tripp

by raydaniels

Try going to control panel choose display click on settings and lower your resolution You might also try resizeing your screen with the buttons on the front of your monitor

by hhhammer

Sorry but it does not fix the problem. I have this problem with several computers, monitors and screen resolutions.

by hhhammer

This appears to be an operating problem. It has happened on several computer brands (no name, Dell & IBM) several monitors and several screen resolutions. It is intermittent as well.

by andersenaxel

Try to go to dell.com and find a new computer that suits you well. that sounds wierd. You can try to boot in safe mode an see if it works then....that's all I can think about. Good luck

by hhhammer

Thank for the URL. Nope, it didn't even come close. As I tried to explain before, this has nothing to do with locking the taskbar. It disappears regardless of whether you have the taskbar locked or unlocked. And it happens randomly.

by thamer

"drag it back into existence" ... What do you mean by "drag it back" and from where when you said it keeps disappearing (Assuming from your Desktop)?

by hhhammer

What I mean by "drag it back into existence" is that it is still on the bottom of the desktop, not in autohide, but at the very bottom of the screen, with no taskbar showing at all. You can take your cursor to the bottom of the screen, get the double-arrowed cursor and re-expand it.

by lizzy

This sounds like a user rights problem--there may be workstation or policy restrictions in place that don't allow you to save certain changes to the Windows environment. You didn't say if this is XP pro or home, on a network, or what. Are you the administrator of the network or do you have administrative rights to the local PC? You will not be able to make changes to shared resources if you don't and thus will not be able to make this a permanent change.

by hhhammer

Thanks Elizabeth. But this happens regardless of being a standard user or Administrator on the desktop or on the network. As one of the network supervisors, I have full rights to the network as well. It happens on XP Pro; either stand-alone or when attached to a Novell 5.1 network.

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