Shoutbox

for some reason my task bar wont work properly.
it has now disappeared and it looks asif i have 'pushed it down' where i havent. before hand it wasnt showing the programs i am running. this is really annoying.. any suggestions?

Does it reappear when you hovor your mouse at the bottom of the screen? If so you may well have set the option to auto-hide the taskbar. Right-click the taskbar if you can get it to appear and select 'properties' and change it back.

CHeck also that you haven't resized it down to zero rows, so that only a thin strip is displayed at the edge of your screen. If so, the thin strip is what to click and drag to resize it to however many rows you want. You can lock the taskbar so that you don't accidentally resize it.

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Originally posted by kierant
Does it reappear when you hovor your mouse at the bottom of the screen? If so you may well have set the option to auto-hide the taskbar. Right-click the taskbar if you can get it to appear and select 'properties' and change it back.

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im not stupid

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Originally posted by rav0
CHeck also that you haven't resized it down to zero rows, so that only a thin strip is displayed at the edge of your screen. If so, the thin strip is what to click and drag to resize it to however many rows you want. You can lock the taskbar so that you don't accidentally resize it.

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thats what i mean, i didnt and i tried to resize it but it wouldnt go back and then i tried again later and it worked but now its only showing any toolbars like WMP. its quite weird. and when i reopen WMP and then minimize it into the taskbar thingy the taskbar resizes to the thin strip

i did an ad scan but it came up with nothing to do with this, havent dont a virus scan though, i very much doubt its a virus since i have protection and its only in my account

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Originally posted by azn angel

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Originally posted by kierant
Does it reappear when you hovor your mouse at the bottom of the screen? If so you may well have set the option to auto-hide the taskbar. Right-click the taskbar if you can get it to appear and select 'properties' and change it back.

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im not stupid

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OK, well next time don't give such a crap explanation of your problem. Just trying to help.

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Originally posted by azn angel
WMP and then minimize it into the taskbar thingy the taskbar resizes to the thin strip

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you've set WMP to be shown as a toolbar, thus when it is minimized you can still control it without switching aplliactaions
to stop:
right cllick toolbar>toolbars>"untick" the windoes media player
option

err nobody seems to understand my problem, let me start again.

my task bar looks like it has been resized as a thin strip. i havent done this and i havent set it to auto-hide. when i try to pull the bar up it doesnt go up. when i use a program that minimizes into the task bar (like WMP) my task bar then shows up. but it does not show any other applications i am running.
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Problem has been fixed.

A corrupted registry was to blame.

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Originally posted by EvilSeph
Problem has been fixed.

A corrupted registry was to blame.

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thanks Evie <3