Windows 7 disappearing taskbar icons

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montyuk

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• Feb 16, 2009

• #2

try logging off and on again, this happens to me every now and then for no apparent reason.
the silly part is - when your logging off the desktop background is shown.

also have you adjusted your uac settings at all? try putting it to the default 3/4 setting.

 

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ronnieh

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• Feb 18, 2009

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now the desktop...

.....uac settings are the default,and now my desktop background is missing also at startup.It appears after opening any window.losing a bit at a time....

 

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montyuk

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• Feb 18, 2009

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try loading the task manager using ctrl-alt-del and see if when its working you can see the icons and the normal desktop.

hate to say it but might be worth backing up and prepping for a reinstall..

 

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Lxocram

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• Feb 20, 2009

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I've got the same problem.
Taskbar is empty on restart or resuming.

I usually close explorer.exe in taskmanager and then relaunch it (New task ...)

 

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spcarso

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• Feb 21, 2009

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I have this same issue. I have found that stopping the DWM resource (Select "Show for all users" first) will bring it all back. However I have to do this every time I restart.

 

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ronnieh

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• Feb 28, 2009

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they're back

nvidia gforce driver update fixed the problem (prerelease wddm 1.1)

 

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