disappearing taskbar

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About 3x a day now, my taskbar will disappear for a few
seconds and then come up, usually without all of my sys
tray icons showing back up.

I've got AdAware, and my virus definitions are up to
date. The taskbar is locked. I can't think of anything
else to check and get this to stop!
 
I have the same problem occasionally, and although I haven't tried to do anything about it, it always seems to happen if I have left a game running (Mahjong Master). That's probably no help but might give someone a clue somewhere
 
Yes, when it first started happening with mine, I thought
it was the transcription audio program I was using, but
it does it on all sorts of occassions.
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I have the same problem occasionally, and although I
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haven't tried to do anything about it, it always seems to
happen if I have left a game running (Mahjong Master).
That's probably no help but might give someone a clue
somewhere
 
About 3x a day now, my taskbar will disappear for a few
seconds and then come up, usually without all of my sys
tray icons showing back up.
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this indicates that *something* is causing explorer.exe (running the
desktop) to start over. That then needs the programs to put the icons
back in the tray; and nothing is telling them to do so: you would have
to close and restart them individually.

It will probably be tricky to find what is causing explorer to fall
over, but two suggestions

R-click in Taskbar and take Task Manager. Look for strange processes
running, especially ones taking significant CPU (other than System Idle)
or steadily increasing memory. Run antispy programs (see
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm for advice

It is *possible* that this can arise if you have a folder of videos that
have bad information embedded in one or more files, that explorer cannot
cope with if it looks. Ones using the DivX codec are suspect - that
came out after Windows XP.
 
I uninstalled my DivX codec since I don't use it anymore,
and Adaware and Norton detected nothing. I can't tell if
there's anything unusual in my running processes, either.
If it did have something to do with the DivX, would I
also need to get rid fo the files that used it?

And....any other ideas??
 
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