taskbar/start button disappears when closing explorer window

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BertieBigBollox

Weird one this... and its happened a few times on one machine.

Windows 2000 server with SP4.

Start menu and taskbar disappear leaving just a couple of windows open
on the screen. No way to get out of this apart from rebooting.

Any ideas ?
 
Don't know why it happens or how to fix it but instead of rebooting what
happens if you stop and restart Explorer.exe via the Task Manager?

John
 
John said:
Don't know why it happens or how to fix it but instead of rebooting what
happens if you stop and restart Explorer.exe via the Task Manager?

John
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Found out now that explorer.exe had actually died. Typing explorer.exe
in one of the open dos windows starts it up again.
 
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