Drew Wilson
December 19th, 2008, 02:13 PM
I'm not sure why the heck this happened for sure, but I installed Yahoo! Messenger. After a few days, the entire taskbar became unclickable on my Vista laptop. Basically, you click on anything in the task bar (minus the start menu) and all you get is a 'ding' noise. Right click, left click or anything and it's just that 'ding' noise. The odd part is if you start a new task, the task bar will update as usual, but you can't click on anything.
I searched around for a few hours on Google but it was mainly people asking similar questions with no response. After some extensive research, one person linked to a support page where it's suppose to fix a problem when the entire desktop freezes. It's something that wasn't an issue I was having I figured.
So, there was a suggestion somewhere where you go into task manager, go to the processes and kill the explorer.exe process. Then, you start a new task in t6he Applications tab and type in explorer.exe to bring back the task bar. This seems to solve the problem, but I'm not sure if the problem will return as I have yet to restart the computer or anything. Anyway, thought I'd post this up for thoughts on the issue and any possible solutions or reasons why the heck Vista is behaving this way. I'm quite sure it's linked to Yahoo Messenger because I never had this problem until that program was installed.
It took me about a day and a half to find this workaround, so I also thought I'd post this up to save a few others from a similar headache.
I searched around for a few hours on Google but it was mainly people asking similar questions with no response. After some extensive research, one person linked to a support page where it's suppose to fix a problem when the entire desktop freezes. It's something that wasn't an issue I was having I figured.
So, there was a suggestion somewhere where you go into task manager, go to the processes and kill the explorer.exe process. Then, you start a new task in t6he Applications tab and type in explorer.exe to bring back the task bar. This seems to solve the problem, but I'm not sure if the problem will return as I have yet to restart the computer or anything. Anyway, thought I'd post this up for thoughts on the issue and any possible solutions or reasons why the heck Vista is behaving this way. I'm quite sure it's linked to Yahoo Messenger because I never had this problem until that program was installed.
It took me about a day and a half to find this workaround, so I also thought I'd post this up to save a few others from a similar headache.