Dissapearing task bar.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

The taskbar at the bottom of the screen keeps dissapearing from the bottom of the screen for the last week or two and i have to close and restart Opera each time. downloaded both Pale Moon and Micrisoft Edge to test and they both work 100% and Opera is the only browser giving this problem.
How can it be rectified or fixed please?

[A Former User]

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@chucky1 What version of Opera and what OS? It doesn't happen here.

[A Former User]

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@leocg Ui, thanks for the reply i am using the latest version( 51.0.2830.40 )

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@chucky1 Any different setting for the task bar, or just using the default ones?

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

@chucky1 I just left opera open and after 20 min the bottom taskbar dissapeared again, i am completely dumbfounded.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@chucky1 And what would be the answer for the question?

And just to clarify things, we are talking about Windows task bar, right?

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg hi no changed no settings all i have is the task bar locked in windows setting nothing els

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@chucky1 Does the problem still happens if you unlock it?

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg yes still doing it after unlocking task bar

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@chucky1 Is the task bar set to auto hide?

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg no it is not set to auto hide all settings are off

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

@chucky1 51.0.2830.40 Taskbar working good here..
updated to 51.0.2830.55 earlier still working good..

dunno why your taskbar Dissapearing.. except this..
The next time you crank up opera and taskbar dissapears look in taskmanager - scroll down to Windows Explorer - explorer.exe - to see if it is crashed.. if so restart - explorer.exe - taskbar should reappear with opera still running..

opera in your case may be crashing explorer.exe

to run new task..

open Task Manager

Click on File>New Task (Run) and enter "explorer.exe" (without the quotes)
Then click OK.

here is a script you can save to notepad to retart explorer.exe fast.. save as a .bat file Call it Restart Windows Explorer.bat - Or the name you wanna.. Save it on desktop for easy access

taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
start explorer.exe

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

the problem is Opera steals focus from the taskbar and once that happens (and it does do it randomly for me) it does not want to give it back

to solve the problem I just use the restore/maximize button to bring focus back to the taskbar again

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

saw this a a thread - YOU HAVE TO DO THIS ... Set the power settings to high that way your PC keeps the taskbar at high profiule so it doesnt dissapear.

and this one - restore the Windows taskbar to default

uncheck lock the taskbar

then boot to safemode

When your computer has entered safe mode, the taskbar resets to its default position. Restarting your computer as normal keeps this change, at which point you may want to Lock the Taskbar.

[A Former User]

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@nvmjustagirl Tried that but still no sucsess so stoped trying and moved to Firefox