I did a clean install of XP (went well) but now my desktop and taskbar
disappear when I'm not moving around on it. It comes back as soon as I move
my mouse, but I find it very annoying. The taskbar autohide is NOT checked
and I can't figure out why it's doing it. Any suggestions would be much
appreciated.
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Thanks, Don

I realize you verify that it is not on autohide.

However, can you try this:
enable autohide, verify result, log out
login, disable autohide, what happens?
If this work, you may want to log out to make sure it keeps the
settings. Sometimes setting change gets lost if the PC crash and you have
not log out after the change. you also will lose the setting if PC shuts
down form another ID while your ID is also logged in.


You may also want to lock the taskbar

"Don" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:595B9C35-B62B-4986-8D9F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I did a clean install of XP (went well) but now my desktop and taskbar
> disappear when I'm not moving around on it. It comes back as soon as I
> move
> my mouse, but I find it very annoying. The taskbar autohide is NOT
> checked
> and I can't figure out why it's doing it. Any suggestions would be much
> appreciated.
> --
> Thanks, Don

I have a similar problem - my desktop expands and contracts for no apparant
reason. This started to happen suddenly - no changes we made to settings.
When it expands, I cannont see my taskbar, if I go to an application, that
too is expanded and the toolbars are not availalble

"jg" wrote:

> I realize you verify that it is not on autohide.
>
> However, can you try this:
> enable autohide, verify result, log out
> login, disable autohide, what happens?
> If this work, you may want to log out to make sure it keeps the
> settings. Sometimes setting change gets lost if the PC crash and you have
> not log out after the change. you also will lose the setting if PC shuts
> down form another ID while your ID is also logged in.
>
>
> You may also want to lock the taskbar
>
> "Don" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:595B9C35-B62B-4986-8D9F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I did a clean install of XP (went well) but now my desktop and taskbar
> > disappear when I'm not moving around on it. It comes back as soon as I
> > move
> > my mouse, but I find it very annoying. The taskbar autohide is NOT
> > checked
> > and I can't figure out why it's doing it. Any suggestions would be much
> > appreciated.
> > --
> > Thanks, Don
>
>
>

That solved the problem. Thanks JG
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Don


"Don" wrote:

> I did a clean install of XP (went well) but now my desktop and taskbar
> disappear when I'm not moving around on it. It comes back as soon as I move
> my mouse, but I find it very annoying. The taskbar autohide is NOT checked
> and I can't figure out why it's doing it. Any suggestions would be much
> appreciated.
> --
> Thanks, Don