No taskbar?

[spidaman]

So I restarted my pc yesterday, and after booting up, the taskbar (Win XP) has just disappeared....restarted it again, but it seems like it's gone forever-just displays the wallpaper without icons. Now i have to open all the services manually(including explorer.exe)....what's could the problem be? I've had a look at services that startup automatically under msconfig, but it still doesn't work.

 

[11masoodt]

my windows xp was also screwed up like that, got tired of it and switched to Windows 7. could be virus, i found a virus in my xp it sort of fixed the problem.

 

[Silver-0-surfer]

press ctrl+shift+esc go to processes and have a look if explorer is running. If not go to applications, new task and then type explorer.

 

[spidaman]

Ya, i know how to open explorer manually, but as a norm it should automatically run after each boot up process as it has been in the past