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Old 01-04-2009
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Start Icon Disappeared

My windows start icon disappeared off the bar. I can still click where it was and use it, but the icon it self is missing. When I click where the icon suppose to be it works fine. I just cant figure out how to get the icon back to showing. I tryed changing themes and restarting, but nothing helped. Also I am using windows vista home.
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Old 01-05-2009
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try pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL and open task manager. Now on the File menu, select New Task (Run...). Type in "explorer" and press OK. That should restart explorer and display your taskbar.
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Old 01-06-2009
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What Disappeared exactly on the Start button or the taskbar completely?
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Old 01-06-2009
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Windows Vista Start orb is located under Windows Aero Visual Style (aero.msstyle) and is IMAGE_872 located in C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\Aero as a PNG file

I have only seen reports that resetting Explorer will return it
But it may be to do with a faulty Aero theme or something

Edit:

Just for fun, here's the Vista Orb for Windows Xp
http://www.lee-soft.com/viorb/builds/vr1/ViOrb%20R1.zip
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Old 01-06-2009
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So if I understand what you say Kimsland, the start logo is and only an image?
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Old 01-06-2009
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Yes that's right
An image that can be changed (mind you lots of Hex editing involved, and this is not the forum for it)
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Old 01-06-2009
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Ok I understand it now.
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