kichigai
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Searched for 4 days and tried 6 different methods here to get my taskbar back.
I use WinXP, and tried the Aston shell program, switched shells back to Win, then something skitched and the PC crashed.
After auto-reboot, the taskbar was gone.
First, I tried dragging from the bottom of the screen to see if the thing was just reduced; searched the 3 other sides of the screen, re-sized my res to see if it was out-of-bounds, ctrl-esc'd and dabbled with all the tb settings, then rebooted.
Ctrl-alt-del & turned explorer on & off & another reboot.
I added a second account, gave it admin status and switched, and everything's working perfectly with the 2nd account. I switch back and still no tb.
After this, I deleted Aston from everything including the registry, rebooted, and still nothing.
Dl'd the XP Taskbar Desktop Fixall and the TB pops into view for just a moment, then goes away again.
Cleaned out my cookies and temp-web log, then ran Xoftspy & found a bunch (around 34) bad guys including a trojan waiting to be popped open, and did a quarantine.
Rebooted again and same thing.
Went into regedit and deleted the StuckRects2 key from the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
StuckRects] string, then rebooted, and nothing. (Re-checked the reg to see if the key regenerated, which it did)
Re-ran the fixall after all this and got the same results.
Incidentally, there is a fixed invisible space at the bottom where the tb should be and icons disappear behind, and it does visibly appear for about 1 minute after every reboot.
I'm thinking it's just a number-adjustment in the reg key, but that's just a wild guess…
Any new info or help would be hugely appreciated!