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My "Start" Menu bar is missing very often..

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    Siva Sankar Koyi
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    Hi, I have WindowsXP Professional 2002 installe my system, I am facing the problem like My saart meny bar is missing very often and if I restart machine only I will able to get back. But I can able to view applications by Alt + Tab button. Can any body give solution for this, Thanks & Regards, Siva

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      Hi, I have WindowsXP Professional 2002 installe my system, I am facing the problem like My saart meny bar is missing very often and if I restart machine only I will able to get back. But I can able to view applications by Alt + Tab button. Can any body give solution for this, Thanks & Regards, Siva

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      Do you get any error when your menu "Start" is not visiblity??? If so what kind of error you get? _____________________ Proud to be Albanian _____________________

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        Hi, I have WindowsXP Professional 2002 installe my system, I am facing the problem like My saart meny bar is missing very often and if I restart machine only I will able to get back. But I can able to view applications by Alt + Tab button. Can any body give solution for this, Thanks & Regards, Siva

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        toxcct
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        what happens when you hit the "Windows" key on your keyboard (or Ctrl+Esc) ?

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          what happens when you hit the "Windows" key on your keyboard (or Ctrl+Esc) ?

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          Siva Sankar Koyi
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          Hi, When I click ( Ctrl + Esc ) asusual it is showing the Start Menu Items, Only problem is I am not able to see the Start Menu task bar..So I am not able to click Start menu with mouse or selecting any other items on task bar. By pressing windows button or Ctrl + Esc or Alt + Tab I can able to work. Thanks, Siva

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            Do you get any error when your menu "Start" is not visiblity??? If so what kind of error you get? _____________________ Proud to be Albanian _____________________

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            Siva Sankar Koyi
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            Hi, I am not getting any error, Only problem is I am not able to see the Start Menu task bar..So I am not able to click Start menu with mouse or selecting any other items on task bar. By pressing windows button or Ctrl + Esc or Alt + Tab I can able to work. Thanks, Siva

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              Hi, When I click ( Ctrl + Esc ) asusual it is showing the Start Menu Items, Only problem is I am not able to see the Start Menu task bar..So I am not able to click Start menu with mouse or selecting any other items on task bar. By pressing windows button or Ctrl + Esc or Alt + Tab I can able to work. Thanks, Siva

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              Dan Neely
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              Do you have autohide enabled? You can check by hovering your mouse cursor a few pixels from the bottom of the screen. IF so it'll pop up after a few seconds.

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                Hi, I have WindowsXP Professional 2002 installe my system, I am facing the problem like My saart meny bar is missing very often and if I restart machine only I will able to get back. But I can able to view applications by Alt + Tab button. Can any body give solution for this, Thanks & Regards, Siva

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                J Dunlap
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                To get your taskbar back, close all Windows Explorer windows, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete (for the Task Manager), go to the Applications tab, press New Task, type "explorer", and press OK. (The Win+R shortcut for the Run dialog may work as well, but I don't remember for sure.) As to why it disappears, I don't know - but perhaps you should use ShellExView[^] to look for any shell extensions that may be causing Explorer to crash. The best way to find out which one is the cause is to disable all non-MS extensions, and then add them in one-by-one.

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                  To get your taskbar back, close all Windows Explorer windows, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete (for the Task Manager), go to the Applications tab, press New Task, type "explorer", and press OK. (The Win+R shortcut for the Run dialog may work as well, but I don't remember for sure.) As to why it disappears, I don't know - but perhaps you should use ShellExView[^] to look for any shell extensions that may be causing Explorer to crash. The best way to find out which one is the cause is to disable all non-MS extensions, and then add them in one-by-one.

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                  I am absolutly joining with you. I think your explorer.exe is corrupted / replaced by some other funny programs or/ viruses. Please do the following steps 1. Go to Folder options in My computer. 2. Click View TAB 3. Unchech the option Hide windows protected files. 4. Goto %Systemroot%/Windows/System32/DLLCACHE 5. Copy the file explorer.exe and paste in %Systemroot%\Windows 6. Overwrite the file explorer.exe Do the steps carefully and restore the system settings manually Cheers Jijo JIJO BABY - Lets Play C#

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                    I am absolutly joining with you. I think your explorer.exe is corrupted / replaced by some other funny programs or/ viruses. Please do the following steps 1. Go to Folder options in My computer. 2. Click View TAB 3. Unchech the option Hide windows protected files. 4. Goto %Systemroot%/Windows/System32/DLLCACHE 5. Copy the file explorer.exe and paste in %Systemroot%\Windows 6. Overwrite the file explorer.exe Do the steps carefully and restore the system settings manually Cheers Jijo JIJO BABY - Lets Play C#

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                    AndyM103
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                    Try the Microsoft Help Centre before even attempting to mess with explorer.exe! Are you sure it isn't on autohide.

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