Taskbar disappears

Its happening to me and I cannot do anything to bring it back. I have even rebooted multiple times with no luck.

Airbot said:

Hi Brannongillis and welcome,

You could try a repair install, might fix it. I used it and it worked good for me. Saves all your files/settings, except maybe a couple basic settings revert back to default.
Repair Install

Ok I finally tried this last night. After the repair all seemed fine. I even rebooted and everything was fine. Then it downloaded some sort of update from Windows (I normally check these things but just let it do its thing this time so I am unsure of the update). Once the update was installed it stated I needed to reboot. I did but choose to go back into Vista first to make sure everything was still there since its my main OS for now. Then I rebooted back into 7 and the taskbar was acting up again. I could see the start button just as before but the clock and all other items were gone. I tried to reboot and samething.

There has to be something on my computer causing a conflict. I wonder if its that update that it downloaded? I can try to uninstall it.

I m having the same problem...happened a few times. Always after the screensaver went on..
You can either reboot...or just, in the taskbar & menu options: check and unchecked the "auto hide taskbar"... that will do it.

I seem to lose the taskbar every time the screensaver cuts in too. I have found what seems to me to be a consistently repeatable cure, albeit temporary. I right click the desktop, select Personalize, and bring up the screen saver settings. I click Preview, and as soon as the screen saver starts up I move the mouse, the screensaver terminates and the taskbar has reappeared. Works EVERY time for me!

antient said:

I seem to lose the taskbar every time the screensaver cuts in too. I have found what seems to me to be a consistently repeatable cure, albeit temporary. I right click the desktop, select Personalize, and bring up the screen saver settings. I click Preview, and as soon as the screen saver starts up I move the mouse, the screensaver terminates and the taskbar has reappeared. Works EVERY time for me!

I can confirm that this temporary solution works for me every time as well. I'm also frustrated that this problem has yet to be fixed, since it has been present for me since the early beta. After testing on multiple systems, my best guess is that it is related to the video drivers, since only those computers with certain NVIDIA gfx cards are what I've seen this on. Certain driver versions appear to work, but not the latest one from the NVIDIA website. Clearly, the screensaver is involved, when looking at antient's temporary solution.

Interestingly, once the bar has disappeared, if you wait for the screensaver to turn on again, then move the mouse, the bar reappears. This is esentially the same as previewing the screensaver.

Has anyone figured out a real solution besides reverting? It's the only real thing holding back my Win7 love.

whoppergator said:

I can confirm that this temporary solution works for me every time as well. I'm also frustrated that this problem has yet to be fixed, since it has been present for me since the early beta. After testing on multiple systems, my best guess is that it is related to the video drivers, since only those computers with certain NVIDIA gfx cards are what I've seen this on. Certain driver versions appear to work, but not the latest one from the NVIDIA website. Clearly, the screensaver is involved, when looking at antient's temporary solution.

Interestingly, once the bar has disappeared, if you wait for the screensaver to turn on again, then move the mouse, the bar reappears. This is esentially the same as previewing the screensaver.

Has anyone figured out a real solution besides reverting? It's the only real thing holding back my Win7 love.

Just to confirm the NVIDIA theory, my card is a NVIDIA GeForce 9400, in an iMac 24"

FWIW, antient

I found that after the screen saver ended my TaskBar would disappear and leave the start button as well. open task manager end explorer.exe and start new task explorer.exe restarting explorer.exe workd great. after reinstalling the screensaver I did not get the problem again.