In Windows 7, you get a pop up dialog with a couple of choices like Computer Only, Duplicate, Extend, etc. In Windows, you can just press the Windows Key + P or go to the Control Panel, click on Display and then click on Adjust Resolution or Change Display Settings. If you regularly connect your computer to external displays or docks, then your issue could be related to that. If it’s on auto-hide and on the left or right of the screen, you simply might not have noticed it. Just in case, you should also check to make sure the taskbar is located at the bottom of the screen. That will open up the taskbar properties dialog box where you will want to go ahead and uncheck the Auto-hide the taskbar box. To do this, you would normally have to right-click on your taskbar, but since that is missing, we have to go through the Control Panel and click on Taskbar and Navigation. However, if something has gone wrong and this isn’t working anymore, you can turn off auto-hide. If your taskbar is hidden, it should automatically show up when you move your mouse to the very bottom of the screen. Let’s go through each one of the possible solutions starting with the simple items first. The display resolution or main display changed and caused the taskbar to go off the screen The explorer.exe process has crashed and the taskbar is completely goneģ.

The taskbar is set to auto-hide and is not visibleĢ.

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