Taskbar Issue Help Please?

Question

Well the problem is that I cannot click on anything on my taskbar. Every time I attempt to click on the taskbar I get that one of those windows error sounds. I'm completely stuck help please.

Answer 1

No, administrators are able to permently lock the taskbar into place so users are unable to change how it is configured, but not stop users access of programs open on it, or the quick launch bar. There are other methods of limiting which programs can be used. If it were an administrative issue, a dialog box would pop up statiing the user does not have proper permissions to do such and such. Users are clearly informed of what is accessable and what is not.

Administrators can completely remove the program shortcut icons from the users desktop, taskbar, start menu, and all programs menu. The user always gets an "access denied" message with an opportunity to put in a user ID and password which has proper permissions for whatever resourse attempted to access with the "access denied" message.

No, this error beeping without any dialog stating what the error is, is far from an administrator choice. Listen, if you have proper permissions go into the Administrative Tools, to to Start-All Programs-Administrative tools-Event Viewer. In event viewer go to the right side where the list of system issues is and double click on the top most entry. This dialog box has three area of information, all three of importance. At the top is the date, the type of issue, the enternal number of the issue, and the computer and the user when the issue occured. The middle section has a desription of the event, with a link to further assistance and/or expanation of the event type, and on the bottom are key error information that you really have to have higher levels of computer knowlege to use properly. However, you can take the event number and all this information, go to the Microsoft Knowlege Base and look for more information and perhaps find an answer on what is going on.

You can browse the errors by clicking the down and up arrows on the upper right top of the event box. This way you don't need to keep going back to the entries, the down arrow takes you to the next event that occured earlier than the first one, and you can keep going back in time. Then use the up arrow to return to recently viewed events to compare with others.

Usually these events come in either single incidents or in incidents with two related events. you can tell by how they read. If it is a two event issue, make sure you write down both issues text information. Then you can take this to your manufacturer tech help. Make sure you at least have the event ID numbers and the bottom sometimes unknowable by mere mortals entries.

I would click on the taskbar and get it to beep then go right into the event viewer and see what the most recent event has to say. It should help you locate the problem and solve it.

If this is not your computer you will not have proper permissions to do much of the investigative work about what is wrong. If this is a domain computer then I suggest you go to your tech department and let them know something is wrong so they can fix it for you.

Good luck and have a nice day!

Answer 2

This is going to be a dumb question, but I'll ask it just the same.
Did you try rebooting your computer?
Perhaps a misbehaving program has crashed the operating system, causing the task bar to not function properly.

If you tried that already, then there is probably a program or driver that is causing problems in Windows.

Answer 3

are you the administrator? if not, you may have restricted/limited access to your computer's programs/applications...the taskbar is one of them...

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