No start button or taskbar

[Guest]

I let my granddaughter play a game on my laptop and now for some unknown
reason, I have no start button or taskbar. I have only found information on
how to find the taskbar by right-clicking on the Start button, or to move the
cursor to the area where the taskbar is located to have it reappear. None of
this is working. Any ideas?

 

[Elmo]

I let my granddaughter play a game on my laptop and now for some unknown
reason, I have no start button or taskbar. I have only found information on
how to find the taskbar by right-clicking on the Start button, or to move the
cursor to the area where the taskbar is located to have it reappear. None of
this is working. Any ideas?

There are a few repairs listed on this page. Download the tool if the
links on the page don't apply.

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I let my granddaughter play a game on my laptop and now for some unknown
reason, I have no start button or taskbar. I have only found information on
how to find the taskbar by right-clicking on the Start button, or to move the
cursor to the area where the taskbar is located to have it reappear. None of
this is working. Any ideas?

There are several possibilities for why. Here's the most likely:

The task bar is resizable, like a window. You may have accidentally
resized it to zero lines high. Put the cursor on the bottom of the
screen and move it up and down slightly until it turns into a
double-headed arrow. Then click and drag it to the size you want.


If that doesn't work, it may be zero lines high on another side of the
screen, so try on all four sides.

Finally, if none of those work, go to
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm, click T, then under
Taskbar, click Taskbar is Missing.