Windows Taskbar Missing

[Greenday]

My sister has somehow managed to lose her taskbar. She has Windows XP running. It's not on auto-hide. It's not on any of the sides of her screen. She has no viruses (That I could find. She only has Norton on there.) I can't figure it out for the life of me. Any ideas?

[Broomjockey]

Is it possible that it was unlocked, and then dragged down so that it's hiding?

[Greenday]

Nope. I checked all four sides and it isn't there.

[ringo]

Go to the Control Panel then "Taskbar and Start Menu". There you will be able to get it to be seen.

[ringo]

Another way you can find it, is hit "Ctrl-Esc". That will launch the "start" menu.

[Greenday]

Tried those both already. Neither things worked.

[Cyphr]

dead systray maybe? trya repair install if all else fails

[UncleImpy]

If you boot the machine into Safe Mode, is the Taskbar there? If not, your install is hosed, you need to run a repair installation. If the repair install doesnt fix it, well, time to back files up.

If it IS there in Safe Mode, you may just have a profile problem and need to rebuild that one user profile. Try logging in as the Administrator and see if the Taskbar is still gone.

[JustADude]

Also, if it hasn't been rebooted at all since the problem started (it's not an obvious connection, is it?) try doing a Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the task manager. If that works, go under "File->New Task (Run...)" and try re-launching "explorer.exe". Actually, try doing that even if you have rebooted.