My frozen taskbar

joe2006 · 06-30-2007, 03:44 AM

I had a problem with my computer earlier today when it stopped responding and froze. I could not get to the start menu so I had to push the shutdown button. When the computer started back up everything seemed to be working ok except the taskbar. The taskbar is frozen. When I put my mouse pointer over it the corsor turns into an hourglass as if it were busy and I cannot click on anything including the start menu. The clock is even frozen. I scanned for viruses and found one and it was deleted but that did not seem to solve the problem. Can somebody help me figure out what to do?

rbxslvr · 06-30-2007, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by joe2006

I had a problem with my computer earlier today when it stopped responding and froze. I could not get to the start menu so I had to push the shutdown button. When the computer started back up everything seemed to be working ok except the taskbar. The taskbar is frozen. When I put my mouse pointer over it the corsor turns into an hourglass as if it were busy and I cannot click on anything including the start menu. The clock is even frozen. I scanned for viruses and found one and it was deleted but that did not seem to solve the problem. Can somebody help me figure out what to do?

go to CTRL + Alt + Delete and terminate the explorer.exe process (kills your taskbar), then go to file -> New Task(run...). Type "explorer.exe" and that should re-open your taskbar.

Perhaps you could grab a new copy of explorer.exe from another computer (maybe the virus ate your original)... c:/windows/explorer.exe... and replace your original (keep a copy of the original, because I have no idea if this will work).

joe2006 · 06-30-2007, 04:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rbxslvr

go to CTRL + Alt + Delete and terminate the explorer.exe process (kills your taskbar), then go to file -> New Task(run...). Type "explorer.exe" and that should re-open your taskbar.

Perhaps you could grab a new copy of explorer.exe from another computer (maybe the virus ate your original)... c:/windows/explorer.exe... and replace your original (keep a copy of the original, because I have no idea if this will work).

Well I tried all that but it did not seem to help. Any other solutions?

06-30-2007, 03:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
joe2006 New Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 8	My frozen taskbar I had a problem with my computer earlier today when it stopped responding and froze. I could not get to the start menu so I had to push the shutdown button. When the computer started back up everything seemed to be working ok except the taskbar. The taskbar is frozen. When I put my mouse pointer over it the corsor turns into an hourglass as if it were busy and I cannot click on anything including the start menu. The clock is even frozen. I scanned for viruses and found one and it was deleted but that did not seem to solve the problem. Can somebody help me figure out what to do?

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