Desktop dropdown/hidden menu help


  1. Posts : 2
    W7
       #1

    Desktop dropdown/hidden menu help


    Hello, I don't know the proper name for the menu, I think it may be called the rocketdock. It's the one that you can hide to the side or the top of the screen and only appears when you move the mouse to the side or top.

    Anyway, I've been using that menu since I installed windows 7, and today I must have hit a key or clicked something that I didn't realise and it completely dissapeared. I have spent at least an hour googling and going through the comps settings to try and restore it. But I can't find any answers in any search I do. How do I get the menu back? It's such a handy feature.
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  2. Posts : 1,849
    Windows 7 x86/x64, Server 2008r2, Web Server 2008
       #2

    Try control r

    If not type taskkill -f -im rocketdock.exe
    then open rocket dock back up
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  3. Posts : 846
    Windows 10 Pro
       #3

    AussieDingo said:
    Hello, I don't know the proper name for the menu, I think it may be called the rocketdock. It's the one that you can hide to the side or the top of the screen and only appears when you move the mouse to the side or top.

    Anyway, I've been using that menu since I installed windows 7, and today I must have hit a key or clicked something that I didn't realise and it completely dissapeared. I have spent at least an hour googling and going through the comps settings to try and restore it. But I can't find any answers in any search I do. How do I get the menu back? It's such a handy feature.

    Are you talking about your taskbar?
    Press CTRL+ESC. Taskbar magically reappears
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  4. zay
    Posts : 507
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #4

    No he is referring to rocket dockm it is a third party taskbar. if worse comes to worse, you could probably do system restore to as close as possible to your current time, but far back enough that you could get your dock back.
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  5. Posts : 2
    W7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    mckillwashere said:
    Try control r

    If not type taskkill -f -im rocketdock.exe
    then open rocket dock back up
    Hitting ctrl r worked thankfully, and I have it back! I don't know what I hit in the first place to make is dissapear, perhaps exactly that, but I'm glad it's back. Thanks everyone :)
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  6. aem
    Posts : 2,698
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
       #6

    You know you can drag the taskbar to where ever sides you want to right?

    Does thet program allow u to position anywhere not just on the edges?
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