I have a Windows XP computer and for the past couple of days, the task bar that is on the bottom of your computer is acting wierd. ( I think that is what it is called?) It is the bar on the bottom that has your start in the left bottom corner and time on the right side with other things that start up with the computer.
Anyway, when I put my cursor over it, it has the hourglass symbol and will take the color or shape of anything that goes over it and I cannot click on any of it. For example, when my screensaver comes on, the whole bottom is the color of the screensaver, or when my spyware tells me I have one alert to view, it shows that over that area. It has only happened for two or three days now.
I would love to have any kind advice that you can give me that will help me fix the problem. Thank you. I have shut it off and restarted it numerous times, and that does not work.
2007-09-14 09:46:22 · 5 answers · asked by Stephanie F 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Sounds like you have something loading up that isn't supposed to be loading. Have you installed or downloaded anything since you discovered this problem? If so you may want to uninstall and see if that will help.run your virus protection and ck for bugs. If all else fails there's always system restore you can always go back to an earlier time when it was working just fine. Good Luck.
2007-09-14 09:58:27 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try pressing the Windows key on your keyboard (it's a flag with 4 squares) and see if the Start menu pops up
I also suggest installing Ad-Aware and seeing if it is a virus problem with your computer, here is a link for that
2007-09-14 16:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by MrPotatoHead 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This seems like a intense processing going on in the taskbar, hit ctrl-alt-del and see what program is using lot of cpu when you do that and end it. You might find the answer there.
2007-09-14 16:54:56 · answer #3 · answered by Jeyan J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Riight click on it and select properties and customize and reset 2 default then lock it.
2007-09-14 16:55:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could be somthing running and eating up ur system resources like spyware ... or it could be ur video driver possibly .. i would try uninstalling ur video driver from device manager first and reinstalling the latest one ..
2007-09-14 16:55:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋