taskbar goes bonko

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Taskbar has gone unresponsive on a couple occasions. Not sure what the cause is or what pattern exists.

Was not able to press any buttons ... the right side icons disappeared, and the START button went bonko. Had to do hard reboot.

just wondering if there's others out there as well...

Dan
Sudbury, Canada

 

[Guest]

I`m Also having this problem and have called microsoft support and they told
me it was prolbey my software interfering..but i don`t think it is becuase it
is allways diferent software open when it does it

 

[Guest]

Same problem. In an effort to narrow things down, tell me please if the
following is true for you:

1. Using a Dell notebook.
2. It only happens when the notebook is docked.
3. When you click on the windows button, it only presents a shadow.
4. It often happens when you come out of screensaver mode.
5. A reboot eliminates the problem, but it always comes back.

 

[Guest]

Yes I do have a dell notebook.. a Inspiron 6000.... as far as i know it does
this only when it is at home on my desk..when i click on the start button
sometimes it only shows half of it..other times it opens it but i`m unable to
open anything from it...and it does it sometimes when i come out of sleep or
screen saver..and a reboot does fix it temp.

 

[Guest]

Interesting. I spent about 2 hours yesterday afternoon online with Microsoft,
going through tests and possible fixes. We started eliminating programs on
startup, and when I disabled all but Microsoft's programs, the problem
ceased. However, I could no longer use Word. Go figure. But I'm now
suspicious that since this problem only happens when the Dell is docked, it
has something to do with either the dock mode system itself, or something
attached to the docking station. I'm going to spend some time this weekend
experimenting with the external keyboard, monitor, mouse, etc., and see if
that fixes it. If I find a fix, I'll let you know. If you find one, please
let me know.

 

[Guest]

After hours talking with Microsoft, and after disabling one process after
another and not finding the answer, I finally did. Sort of. I installed the
new Tweak for Vista
(http://www.totalidea.com/content/tweakvi/tweakvi-index.html) and enabled
some of that program's taskbar options (fade, etc.), and Tweak seems to have
either stabilized the taskbar, or taken control of it. Either way, my taskbar
now works, and keeps working. I'm giving up on finding a fix other than Tweak.

 

[Guest]

Hi There

I found a fix for mine too...microsoft figuared out that it was my dell
bios..it was not vista compatable..so i flashed it and reinstalled vista and
everything works great...but if you are going to flash the bios you will have
to reinstall vista becuase the bios that is not compatable with vista curups
the vista system files...so the only way that you can fix it is by
reinstalling it..after flashing the bios..hope this helps

 

[Guest]

Interesting. The guy at Microsoft I've been talking to, had me disable the
sleep mode on my computer, and I haven't had a repeat of the problem. But,
your solution sounds better. Can you tell me... when you reinstalled Vista,
did you have to then also reinstall all the dang programs and settings? That
would be a hassle, indeed!

 

[Guest]

Hi

Yes i did..i had to reformat the whole harddrive and then reinstall
vista..but i decided to upgrade to windows vista ultimate...and it is
impressive..

 

[Guest]

I would first of all like to say that I like the title of this diss. group
because it does go "bonko"! I am currently downloading TweakVI and I hope it
works because I am at the point of throwing a copy of Vista @ Gates! I just
bought a Gateway and I don't have it docked or anything like that the only
way I can relate is that the taskbar goes bonko after comming out of sleep
mode.

 

[Guest]

I have an HP Pavillion notebook 9000 series...and it does the EXACT THING to
me. I troubledshooted with HP and they had me disable all start up programs
the first time. two hours later after i hung up the problem occured again. I
called them up the second time and they had me create a new user account....9
hrs later after i hung up with them the problem occured again. I havent
called them back, im so frustrated and done with this issue. So it still
happens and it happend the VERY FIRST TIME I OPENED UP MY LAPTOP...so i kno
its not anything i downloaded or any software issues...its a bug in vista
they need to fix!!!

 

[MICHAEL]

Did you try this fix?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932406/en-us
After a Windows Vista-based computer has been running for an extended period of time, the
desktop screen may stop updating correctly. For example, you may experience any of the
following symptoms:
- Parts of the screen may go black.
- Parts of the screen may become transparent.
- The toolbar may disappear.
- The toolbar may appear at the top of the screen instead of at the bottom of the screen.

The download to the fix;

Update for Windows Vista 32 bit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5C0C7FF4-C9C1-4119-8B59-18DADC49348A

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based systems
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A612D795-B26A-47DC-9FF3-BA711CA5BD14


-Michael

* DisgruntledVisaUser:

 

[Larry]

I refuse to flash bios and have to start all over again with a years worth of
work. If the problem is the Dell BIOS, then they need to fix it. By the way,
I do not have any docking station so it is not that. If you end task on
explorer and restart it, the problem goes away for another couple of hours.