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    Task bar disappearances

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by RayDawg, Dec 18, 2010.

  1. RayDawg

    RayDawg Notebook Consultant

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    My task bar disappears after my AW screensaver stops playing. Usually, the screensaver (the All Powerful one with the feiry alien head) repeats for a few times, but after that, it completely stops playing and when I exit out, my task bar is gone. It only comes back when I idle and let the screensaver come up again. Does anyone know how to fix this?
     
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    roxxor Notebook Evangelist

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    Happens to me as well. I haven't figured out how to fix it though. I tend to just kill/restart explorer when it does.
     
    roxxor, Dec 18, 2010
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    What do you mean restart explorer?? Do you mean restarting IE?
     
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    Yeah, sounds like an explorer issue. Try doing a control + alt + deletle, going to task manager, file> new task> and then run explorer.exe.
     
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    All that appears when I run explorer.exe is my library. What was supposed to actually appear?
     
    RayDawg, Dec 18, 2010
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    I think he means to restart explorer by going to the task manager and ending the process. This will kill the process and restart it.

    Exporer.exe is not Internet Exporer (IE)
     
    filmm, Dec 18, 2010
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    Your library appears because there's still an explorer process running. In task manager end all explorer processes, then File -> new task and type "explorer". The taskbar will reappear.
     
    roxxor, Dec 18, 2010
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