this taskbar is not orking?

Question

my taskbar is not working! i never wrote a recovery disc ant that taskbar repair tool plus! program wont work on my windows xp computer! sombody help me!

i ment working! sorry.

Answer 1

Its Ok that you didn't spell it right, I still understood what you were asking. But, try in the future to spell at least the main question section because many individuals here won't respond to questions that are not properly spelled or written in a way which makes it clearer what the issue is. Just a small bit of advice, meant in a nice manner.

Now, if I understand correctly, your taskbar has quit working in some fashion. It would help if you could write what you were doing when it stopped working, and how it stopped working. For example: If you had told us that while you were using Internet Explorer, suddenly your taskbar dispeared, or frooze up on you, that your program buttons are not showing up on the taskbar, the ones which show which programs are currently open, or that your Quick Launch Toolbar is not working, or some other Taskbar Toolbar, or all Taskbar Toolbars won't work, etc.

Now, have you attempted a reboot of your system to see if your Taskbar begins working properly again? Sometimes many errors in the system, such as program hangs, can be quickly corrected by rebooting the system. The Taskbar is actually a small program in your System Files and as such it can "hang" just as any other program can hang.

When a program or utility "hangs" it means that it freezes, or quits responding. For a program that you open yourself either from the Desktop, Taskbar, Notification Area, or the Start Menu, you can close the program by using Task Manager, and then reopen it normally. If it will not open normally, then a reboot will usually fix the issue, at least temporarily until you can locate the actual cause of the hang or freeze.

Now, if rebooting the system fails to fix the issue, you may need to try a System Restore Point. The System Restore program takes a snapshot of your system at least once a day. When your system becomes unstable, and difficulties of all sorts begin to occure, System Restore can take your system back in time to a point when it was working correctly.

Now, it could also be a sign that you are infected with some sort of malware. Sometimes System Restore can take your system back to a point before the malware infected your system. However, your best bet is to use a good quality ant-virus program to perform a full system scan, locate and rid the system of malware it finds. Sometimes malware can be very sneaky, and in these cases many anti-virus programs on the market, both free and cost, can miss the malware and leave it on the system.

In cases such as this it is a good idea to do one of two things, depending upon your needs. First is to go to a HijackThis forum and allow one of the vollunteer experts lead you through the steps of cleaning up your system. There are many HijackThis forums and the people who help out are very experianced and help people for free. These people are usually employed in this area or another IT area, and if you walked into their offices and asked for help it may cost you several hundred dollars, yet they give this for free Online in the HijackThis forums.

If you decide you wish to use a forum such as this just type HijackThis into your search engine and then click on several of the links to forums and read some of the posts until you find one which you feel comfortable with, then sign up for a membership and post your question.

Now, all HijackThis forums have a "Read this first" post, which is usually at the top of the post links. You read that first because it explains how the HijackThis utility and other utilities work, explains how to download, install, and scan withh the tools, and to then post the results in the forum for the experts to review and then explain step by step what you need to do to clean up your system.

The other option is to take your machine to a reputable repair shop where they can clean your system for you, but it will be for a fee.

It all depends upon what you feel comfortable with, and whether or not you have the time to devote to following the steps in the HijackThis forums.

Now, if the reboot does not fix your issue, and it returns, then you should try a System Restore to see if it will resolve the issue, which would be to fix whatever damage occurred to your system.

Before you do a System Restore, you need to think of any changes you made recently to your system. You also need to remember when this first began occurring, because you will need to pinpoint a date which is before the issue began, or it will be worthless.

It is a good idea to start a habit of setting a manual Restore Point before you make any changes to your system. This way if something goes wrong you can easily take your system back to the way it was before the changes were made. It is a good way to feel more confident when working with your system. Each time you add software, update a driver, add hardware devices, change configurations, etc, set a manual Restore Point first, with a name which will quickly identify the event which occurred.

To use System Restore, do one of these depending upon your OS version:

For XP, click on Start-Help and Support, and then locate the words System Restore. Sometimes it just states System Restore and other times it will say something like, Undo Changes to your System with System Restore. It just depends on the manufacturer of your system. Click on those words as they are a link to the actual System Restore utility.

Once System Restore opens, select the redial button before the option: Restore my computer to an earlier time. Then click Next. Select a date which is before the error began, or before the changes or event which caused the Taskbar to stop responding. Click Next and follow the next two screens instructions and then click Finish, or whichever wording is prompting you to finish and reboot your system. Your system will automatically reboot and then when you log onto your desktop a message will greet you stating you have successfully restored your system.

For Vista, click on Start, they begin typing System Restore, and when it appears in the list click on it. System Restore will open. Now just follow the same steps as above, and then reboot.

Now, to set a manual Restore Point before you make any changes to your system, open System Restore as instructed above, and select the second option, which is Set a Restore Point. The date will be selected for you as it is the date and time you are creating the Restore Point. Create a descriptive name for the Restore Point which will easily remind you of what was changed, such as Installed Webcam, or Changed Network SSID, and Password. etc. Just name it something which will easily remind you of what you were getting ready to do. Follow the steps to finish, and you will not need to reboot after setting a manual Restore Point.

It is a very good idea to get into the habit of setting manual Restore Points whenever you are about to make ANY type of change to your system. No matter how small it may seem at the time.It does not hurt to set a manual Restore Point, it takes only a few brief moments, and then you will know your system is protected from any unforeseen errors which occur.

Good luck and a very happy holiday season for you and your's.