Clean Up - Task Bar Disappear And Not Come Back
Jan 23, 2007
My wife's machine has been running slowly, and I am certain it is full of junk. Earlier I had improved things amazingly by uninstalling McAffee and replacing w/ AVG. Now it's all bogged down again, and a reboot does little to help. In addition, some Windows features have been squirrely for a long time, for example the Windows task bar likes to disappear and not come back. We've never been able to get Eudora (free version) to function properly.
Dell Inspiron 2600
PIII
Mobile CPU 1133 MHz
722 MHz, 256 MB of RAM
Windows XP
Home Edition v. 2002, sp 2
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 9:51:12 AM, on 1/23/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0011)..............
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Jul 18, 2005
Taskbar has been dissappearing off of my desktop while I'm working on the computer.
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Apr 18, 2006
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Feb 18, 2008
My son has a Dell dimension 9100 The taskbar/start and all the desktop icons disappear and then reappear every 10-4 seconds All programs can still be accessed through start if you r quick enough!! otherwise throught the task manager. The system will not start in safe mode, only get a blue screen in safe mode, asdvising to run CHKDSK, which we have. Is the hard drive on its way out?? or does this sound repairable?
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Aug 29, 2006
Hey ermm i have been having this problem for a week now when i do cntrl + alt + del the task manager comes but goes automaticly in 2 seconds.
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Jul 21, 2005
I am running xp pro and I have adaware se professional plus spyware eliminator. this happened before and I had to reformat the whole drive. I think spyware chews up my tool bar. When I do CTRL-ALt-DEL to bring up Task Manager, The top part is missing where it is listed--File, Option , Help etc. How can I get it back? Why did it happen? How can I prevent it.
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May 26, 2007
I don't have any idea what causes my desktop icons, start button, task bar and clock to disappear but it is most annoying!!!
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Jan 2, 2005
I did some clean-up on my pc last week. I deleted the sound by mistake. What can I do to have it back? I have windows xp.
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Oct 11, 2005
I got a virus, McAfee cleaned them and now today I cannot open task manager. It opens then closes that fast. McAfee still finds no viruses. I've ran ewido 2 days ago and spybot. IE sometimes doesn't load and I cannot access the resistry from RunRegedit.exe, it also opens then closes.
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Jul 29, 2007
I have a rig with some form of linux i put on there months ago and now i want to install xp home sp 2 on it. i have done many xp home installs and im using the disk from my good rig the one whos specs i have listed because i just put vista on this one. now whenever i put in the xp home disk it starts like normal by saying press any key to boot from cd.... i hit enter and then the black backround stays but no text ever appears. after about 10 min the drive stops spinning.
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Sep 19, 2006
my task bar is on the right side of my computer, how can I get it back to the bottom where it was?
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Jan 11, 2004
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Apr 23, 2007
I am having a problem with the task bar. I used to have it on the bottom of my screen, but now it is on the top. not sure how it got there. I tried to move it back to the bottom but it won't go... I can move it up and down, but not to the side or bottom.
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Jul 8, 2010
I have Windows XP on my computer. How can I put an icon on my taskbar? When I try to drag it there the icon jumps back up.
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Aug 12, 2002
Don't know if anyone else hates it, but the new task switcher is WAY too damn slow for me.Select your method of removing startup programs, either from the registry (sorry don't remember the key, it's on this site somewhere) or use MSCONfIG, or any of the other programs that edit the startup programs.select "taskswitch.exe" and remove it
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Aug 23, 2005
I was working with tech service to get my wireless router back up and running. after control panel, system, device manager would not come up. or if i tried again and again it would pop up and disappear.
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Jun 26, 2005
I keep on getting an error message saying windows explorer has to close etc. that asks you if you want to send an error report.Whether you do or not, all the desktop icons disappear for a couple of seconds then reappear only for the same message to come up again.On the more information tab it suggests I download windows XP SP2 but when I try that it wont download.It does begin downloading alright but then as its about to install it just says file could not be found.I don't know if its a coincidence but this only began after I was downloading a file on Warez that stopped downloading near the end and just said the file was corrupt. After that is when this problem began.I can continue on with whatever I'm doing on the computer but I have constant error message on front of me.
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Mar 31, 2006
I have thought that my Internet explorer was messed up.So I downloaded Mozilla, I still think that it is messed up but I have another problem now, The thing that is messed up with internet explorer is when you go to a website like utube.com or street fire.net to watch a video on internet explorer it would show the video for a split second and then it would disappear, but when you went on to mozilla and went to any website with any video it was fine. so i thought it was a problem with internet explorer, then the problem proceeded to windows media player, the computer would rather free or restart itself with any program that played videos, so you would think the problem is with the video card, well that what i was thinking because i have been having this problem all night with windows movie maker trying to make a video it would restart itself, well i finally got so fedup that i sent the error report after it recovered from a serious error and it popped up a microsoft help page saying it was a video driver error, so i updated it restarted same problem so i went to display advanced did what it said same problem but the send error report popped up a different error this time said it was from a device driver but it didnt know which one and it wanted me to test direct draw, where it shows u black and white triangles and such and asks you if you saw them, well on the third part of the test where it shows a white ball bouncing full screen it showed that then flashed the blue screen with tons of words and restarted and same thing when you try it again, so my question is, what could this be? I just want to fix all of my video problems. I went into my device manager and it says that the device is currently functioning properly. And if you are going to respond please explain well because I am not very computer savvy I just know a little.
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Jun 11, 2007
I was on Opera (as I am now) and IE just opened itself automatically, which I haven't used for ages, so I closed it straight away and assumed it was a spyware thing, so would scan my PC tomorrow. But when it closed, I got the eggtimer pointer and my taskbar disappeared and all my icons disappeared. I was going to print screen and save it, but because my taskbar has disappeared and my start menu cannot be accessed by the start button (as it went with the taskbar) or the windows key, I can't get to photoshop or paint or anything.
Anyway I think you get the idea, I can only use the programs that I had open which is Firefox and Opera. Anyone else encountered this, and know of any way to counter this, without restarting (as my PC doesn't like restarts, but that's a whole different kettle of fish)?
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Feb 4, 2007
I am using Windoze 2000 pro and I've never had this problem before but my peecee is wanting to lock up after 20 minutes of use. The mouse will disappear and the computer will not respond to anything even a alt+ctrl+del
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Aug 30, 2006
When go into safe mode, all the desktop icons don't always appear and that makes the reason I went into safe mode unworkable. Is there some way I can get all the desktop icons to appear in the safe mode? I'm trying to run one of my software programs from the desktop. I also wanted to install some software in the safe mode and when the setup icon didn't appear I was unable to do the install.
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Jan 18, 2009
Running Windows XP Pro SP3. For the past couple weeks when I click on START/ALL PROGRAMS the programs menu comes up for a few seconds and most of the time before I can select a program the menu disappears from the screen. I know of other ways I can get to the program I want so I am in no big panic. This problem is frustrating.
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Aug 12, 2002
Like to know where all of the system files went? Such as the pagefile, autoexec.bat, etc. In any folder that contains files. Click on the tools menu and select folder options. Then click on the view tab. Locate where it lists Hide protected operating system files and uncheck it.Click yes on the box that will pop up.Click OK.
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Feb 16, 2006
when I close Control Panel, my desktop icons disappear for a view seconds and then reappear. Same thing happens when I close a folder which has a shortcut on my desktop.
I am not sure if this started directly after I uninstalled Norton 2002, and installed AC-Antivirus.
I also noticed that my machine got slower.
I have scanned the PC for viruses and spyware, and it seems to be OK
My machine is a HP Pavilion 540n with Win XP sp2 Home Edition, 512 RAM DDR. Pentium 4 1,60 GHz
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Jan 7, 2009
I am running XP with SP2.My Control Panel icon has now disappeared.
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Aug 12, 2005
My problem is I have nothing on my desktop, no icons no tool bar. I cannot right click to get to properties. I can Control. Alt, Delete to get Task Manager and start a new process. After browsing for an application, I can get to any rogram/processor, but this is REALLY annoying. I have done a restore to 2 days ago and that didn't help. This just "happened" after the computer had been in use, screen saver turned on and then when I went to use it again, NOTHING.
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Sep 7, 2005
Hi my problem is i can't view system32, cant find it anyware, cant explore to it or anything.
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Dec 8, 2004
Every day about once or twice, I get extremely annoyed after my computer reaches 100% CPU usage and stays there, most of the times forcing me to sit in front of it, ending processes on Task Manager until finally I'm able to restart, taking 10 minutes of my time, especially because when I return to Windows after rebooting, my 4 toolbars in the taskbar, including 40+ shortcuts in the Quick Launch bar, disappear, forcing me to manually reorganize them (which I do with help from the latest screenshot I've taken).
The culprits are explorer.exe (surprise, surprise ), other times CCApp.exe (Norton Internet Security 2005's user session manager), and last time rundll32.exe, which I closed and then, believe it or not, firefox.exe was taking 100% CPU (I'm sure it has nothing to do with Firefox though, maybe a problem with an extension since I have more than 35, but I doubt it). I do not use Internet Explorer, and I don't have any viruses (just checked last night).
Also, spyware is out of the question here (checked about 3 days ago and I'm doing fine, in fact I haven't had any type of spyware in 3 or 4 months (since switching to Firefox it's almost like spyware doesn't exist, what a coincidence), other than tracking cookies, and I've checked with both Spybot and Ad-Aware SE 1.05 with all the most thorough settings).
I'm running Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 on a Dell Inspiron 5150 (3 GHz P4, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD), nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 graphics card (latest nVidia drivers), latest BIOS from Dell, etc....
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Nov 11, 2009
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Aug 3, 2005
I had a .dll file disappear due to the loading of a new video driver. I have googled it and downloaded it, but I don't know where to place it within my windows directory tree in order to solve the problem. I have tried to place it in the windows root directory, the windows/system directory, and the windows/system32 directory, all to no avail.
The .dll file is MSVCP71.DLL.Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Aug 12, 2009
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