Hide Taskbar, MISSING!

[INDalltheway]

Now how do I get it back? It is in the quick launch bar and she disappeared.

[MizzouRah]

MISSING TASKBAR

A few times I've seen computers where it seems the Taskbar has vanished, due perhaps to a mouse button that stuck. When something like this happens you cannot use the mouse to get the Taskbar back and re-size it. What you have to do is get the Taskbar back into view by pressing the Ctrl and the Esc keys at once. This brings up the Start Menu. You can then press the Esc key by itself to close the Start Menu, but the Taskbar should still be visible. Now it should be possible to use your mouse to resize the Taskbar. Or, if you press the Alt key and space bar at the same time, you get the Taskbar sytem menu. You can select Size by typing the letter S; you will see a cross formation of two doubly-pointing arrows, one pointing left and right, the other pointing up and down. Then use the Up arrow key in order to make the Taskbar larger. When you press the Enter key again, you will now have your Taskbar back in view.

This process will bring back a hidden Taskbar which has resulted because of a "stumbling" mouse. Sometimes, however, the Taskbar is missing because of a Registry corruption, as described in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article: