Running application buttons disappeared from the Taskbar

[rosemont]

Everything else seems normal, while no button if minimize any windows.
Alt-Tab works.
No button, just an empty looking taskbar (everything without the
running application buttons).
HELP!

Have Googlt toolbar beta, IE 7 beta, and Windows Live Messenger beta
installed. not sure related or not.

 

[Galen]

In (e-mail address removed) had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Everything else seems normal, while no button if minimize any windows.
Alt-Tab works.
No button, just an empty looking taskbar (everything without the
running application buttons).
HELP!

Have Googlt toolbar beta, IE 7 beta, and Windows Live Messenger beta
installed. not sure related or not.

Sounds like a corrupted profile to me...

See this:

Corrupt Profile:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/corrupt_profile.html

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"I am glad of all details, whether they seem to you to be relevant or
not." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[rosemont]

Galen, thank you very much. I logged in another account, and it didn't
show the symptom. Mostly likely I will have to follow the suggestion
in the link you gave above. However, 1) How does it dawn to you that
it's the case of corrupt user profile? Just curious. 2) From the link
you gave, the only way seems to be create another user, then copy
whatever files. However, all user settings would be lost. Are there
other ways to 'repair' the corrupt profile? Thanks again!

daye

 

[Galen]

In rosemont had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Galen, thank you very much. I logged in another account, and it
didn't show the symptom. Mostly likely I will have to follow the
suggestion in the link you gave above. However, 1) How does it dawn
to you that it's the case of corrupt user profile? Just curious. 2)
From the link you gave, the only way seems to be create another user,
then copy whatever files. However, all user settings would be lost.
Are there other ways to 'repair' the corrupt profile? Thanks again!

daye

How do I know? Well, I see it in various forms every day. When you make the
new profile and copy over the settings then you'll have the same settings as
you did with the last account normally. Remember to copy/paste instead of
cut/paste to ensure it all works properly first.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"I am glad of all details, whether they seem to you to be relevant or
not." - Sherlock Holmes