Taskbar is all messed up!

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Michel

My taskbar is all messed up!: My Start button is not a "button"
anymore, it's a green bar. That horizontal bar that goes from the left
to the right side of my desktop with just the windows logo on the left
side. If I click on it the start menu appears.
My taskbar is just a blue blue bar with no links at all, below the
green bar. Yes, I have already gone to the taskbar properties and
tried to have the quick launch show and everything else too, but
nothing comes up! I tried dragging to see if anything was "hidden"
somewhere but nothing. To the right of the task bar, is it a lighter
blue area, the only links that appear there are the date and part of a
link...
In addition, if I go to the display link on the control panel of if I
do a right click on the desktop and click on property, nothing
happens! That's just as strange!
This problem started about 2-3 weeks ago. I did a "restore" going back
a month but didn't help either...
I tried setting up a new user. Under that new user, everything looks
fine.

Anybody can help with that?....please...

Thank you.
 
This is such a simple idea that it probably won't work, but what the
heck...In Display Properties select the Themes tab (usually its the first
one) and change the theme back to Windows XP. If it's already at Windows XP,
change to Windows Classic and then change back to Windows XP.

If all else fails, create a new user (which you said looks fine) with
administrator privileges and move all your documents, favorites, email,
address book, etc. to the new user. Once you're sure you've moved everything
you'll ever want to the new user, delete the user with the problem.

Tom Swift
 
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