I have a Windows 2000 Pro computer that was infected with serveral viruses.
I cleaned up all viruses, but now the Windows Taskbar is completely gone.
All the Icons appear on the desktop, but the whole taskbar is gone.

I have tried the obvious, CTRL+ESC and the Windows key and it is not just
hidden or minimized. I used Task Manager to close Explorer.exe and restart
it and it does not come back.

Is there a setting in the Registry that controls the Taskbar display?

How do I get the taskbar back?

ctrl+shift+esc

File->Run->explorer.exe

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"Jim D" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a Windows 2000 Pro computer that was infected with serveral viruses.
> I cleaned up all viruses, but now the Windows Taskbar is completely gone.
> All the Icons appear on the desktop, but the whole taskbar is gone.
>
> I have tried the obvious, CTRL+ESC and the Windows key and it is not just
> hidden or minimized. I used Task Manager to close Explorer.exe and
> restart
> it and it does not come back.
>
> Is there a setting in the Registry that controls the Taskbar display?
>
> How do I get the taskbar back?
>

I resolved the problem by re-installing Windows 2000 over top of the original
installation.

"Jim D" wrote:

> I have a Windows 2000 Pro computer that was infected with serveral viruses.
> I cleaned up all viruses, but now the Windows Taskbar is completely gone.
> All the Icons appear on the desktop, but the whole taskbar is gone.
>
> I have tried the obvious, CTRL+ESC and the Windows key and it is not just
> hidden or minimized. I used Task Manager to close Explorer.exe and restart
> it and it does not come back.
>
> Is there a setting in the Registry that controls the Taskbar display?
>
> How do I get the taskbar back?
>