My frozen taskbar

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joe2006

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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?
 
joe2006 said:
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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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).
 
rbxslvr said:
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).
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Well I tried all that but it did not seem to help. Any other solutions?
 
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