One day, my Windows Taskbar simply
disappeared. No icons, no Start button, nothing. I can’t figure out where it
has gone. How can I get it back?
First of all, please note that
although the task bar normally appears at the bottom of the screen, it’s
possible that you have moved your Windows Taskbar to another edge of your
screen. It may seem obvious, but look at all four edges of the screen before
you give up. It’s really easy to inadvertently drag the Taskbar to an edge
other than the bottom—all you have to do is click and drag on the Taskbar, and
it happily obliges by moving to the edge you drag it to. (If you want to
disable this behavior, right-click on the Taskbar and select “Lock Taskbar” or
“Lock All Taskbars” in Windows 8). If you have dragged the Taskbar to the wrong
edge, you can simply drag it back down to the bottom.
But, our gut feel is that this
isn’t your problem, and that you’re really not seeing a Taskbar at all. The
next step is to determine if you have enabled auto-hiding for the Taskbar. If
so, it retracts into the edge of the screen whenever you’re not using it. Try
pressing Ctrl+Esc (that is, the Control key and the Escape key at the same
time)—this should display the Taskbar, even if you have turned on its Auto-hide
behavior. (You can also simply press the Windows key on your keyboard, if you
have this key available.) If this keystroke displays the Taskbar, right-click
on it, select Properties, and then uncheck the “Auto-hide the taskbar” option. You
can find many online articles on this topic (clearly, it happens to a lot of
people); we found this one useful: http://goo.gl/FXa2Ya.
If all these suggestions don’t
help, you may need to seek professional computer help to either reset Windows
or reinstall—hopefully, that won’t be required!
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