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Discussion in 'Other Hardware' started by cutie, Jul 12, 2005.

  1. cutie Newcomer, in training

    I cannot see anything on the Task bar none of the icons at all neither the start button

    I was defraging the harddrive and in less than a minute put an end to it

    after ending then I realsied my system was VERY slow and and the task bar was greyed out!

    confused?

    what is the problem?
    cutie, Jul 12, 2005
    #1

  2. Abraxas Newcomer, in training Posts: 205

    What OS? Did you restart since then (you probably did)?
    Canceling defragmentation shouldn't cause any crazy things to happen you can't fix with a restart.
    Abraxas, Jul 15, 2005
    #2

  3. zephead TechSpot Paladin Posts: 2,483

    i dunno, interrupting a defreag process on a fat-based filesystem can cause some pretty bad things to happen.
    zephead, Jul 16, 2005
    #3

  4. Abraxas Newcomer, in training Posts: 205

    Really? Well, I got lucky then. :D
    But messing up the task bar on a permanent basis seems very unlikely.
    Perhaps there never was a restart, hehe.
    Abraxas, Jul 16, 2005
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  5. zephead TechSpot Paladin Posts: 2,483

    usually when the taskbar gets really messed up it is from corrupted registry entries of system files, of it could be the work of malicious software.
    zephead, Jul 17, 2005
    #5

  6. Abraxas Newcomer, in training Posts: 205

    I think cutie wasn't able to get back into the system at all...
    Abraxas, Jul 17, 2005
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