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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