The mystery of the disappearing Taskbar.

Chris
#1. February 8th, 2008, at 3:58 PM.

How do you keep this from happening? Its a daily occurrence for me.

Garth
#2. March 1st, 2008, at 7:54 PM.

Me too! Quite frustrating. Surely this has to be happening on a LOT of other systems. MS ought to sit up and take notice.

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Cheyne
#3. May 7th, 2008, at 1:41 PM.

This happens to me several times a day on a Dell Vostro 1700. Every time I unplug my dual monitor to go to meetings the taskbar dissapears. Something as fundemental as this should have been fixed BEFORE the Vista release, much less a year after!

Charlie
#4. June 20th, 2008, at 8:06 PM.

I just type “ta” into Visa Start (for me this does not dissapear) then click on “Taskbar and Start Menu” then Auto-hide, apply : then Auto-hide, apply. Now the task bar is back. Still a big nuisance though!
Just fix it! PS> This never happened the first 9 months of me having Vista. I suspect it arrived with an “update”.

dave
#5. November 9th, 2008, at 8:10 PM.

thanks.

Jen
#6. February 11th, 2009, at 4:31 PM.

Did not help AT ALL!!

James
#7. March 22nd, 2009, at 10:53 PM.

Hey, great help! Saves me a restart!

Simba
#8. April 26th, 2009, at 4:44 PM.

like charlie said I just type “ta” into Visa Start (for me this does not dissapear) then click on “Taskbar and Start Menu” then tick “keep taskbar on top of other windows” and apply that should work

i suspect it came with an update

Ronnie
#9. May 27th, 2009, at 2:10 PM.

you can also just set your screen saver to come on in the minimum amount of time (1 minute), wait for it to come on, and then shake the mouse or touch the pad, and BAM the vanishing bar is back, discovered this little trick by accident, and at least it only takes one minute of doing NOTHING to get it back…. sure beats a restart, or going in and clicking a bunch of crap.

chris
#10. June 2nd, 2009, at 7:01 PM.

Hover over the top toolbar to bring it up….
Click on tools and deselect fullscreen…
Don’t know why mine ended up like this but this cured the toolbar and disappearing taskbar.
You may also need to temporarily unlock the toolbar if things need rearranging up there

ritchie
#11. July 5th, 2009, at 10:31 PM.

Worked as tutored!

Aigy
#12. July 28th, 2009, at 1:04 AM.

windows7

my taskbar disappearin after the time of “hibernation”

settin the screensaver at 9′
and off-the-monitor at 15′

…i wish for an update issue.. or a simple change but this is not very nice to be.. :P

Mike
#13. August 14th, 2009, at 9:56 AM.

On waking up computer found that taskbar had ‘disappeared’ although top of Vista start button still just visible. This seemed to suggest the display settings had somehow changed for the external monitor. Checking in the display settings (Control Panel/Personalization/Display Settings) I found that although the resolution was correct, the screen refresh rate had changed from 60MHz to 59MHz. Changed it back to 60 and my screen was back to normal - until the next time it goes to sleep!

mark
#14. September 6th, 2009, at 11:33 PM.

Hi
Still have a totally disappered task bar and start menu! Have tried a 1 minute screen saver setting, have ended explorer process in task manager, have fiddled with settings and display, have restarted 10 times, still no joy!
Any suggestions most welcome..thanks
Mark

craig
#15. September 8th, 2009, at 5:56 AM.

Found a quicker way to sort this out if it is a reguar occurance
Go to this website
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Go to line 164. and select “Restore Taskbar to Default Functionality”
Save it to your desktop if you want (As I have), it should be a .vbs file.
Each time your taskbar disappears double click the icon and click yes when prompted, this will restart the Windows Explorer Shell during which your desktop icons will momentarily disappear. Once complete another dialogue box will appear, click ok.
Your taskbar will be restored.
N.B. Any windows/folders that are open for example My Music or Documents Etc. will be closed during the process. Internet explorer windows and other programmes will stay open and should not be effected.
This fix works with Windows XP and Windows Vista

Carr
#16. September 14th, 2009, at 6:58 PM.

Worked! Thanks a million.

Dee
#17. October 20th, 2009, at 3:47 PM.

Charlie
#4. June 20th, 2008, at 8:06 PM.
I just type “ta” into Visa Start (for me this does not dissapear) then click on “Taskbar and Start Menu” then Auto-hide, apply : then Auto-hide, apply. Now the task bar is back.

Thank you so much! Charlie
You save me so much work by sharing your knowledge, you save me such a big headache and crying and blaming VISTA. I have a deadline for an important application. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH

Tammy
#18. October 21st, 2009, at 7:57 PM.

That worked wonderfully. Thanks alot!!!!!!