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Update: 18 August 2008: I contacted SnagIt’s Technical Support a week or so ago, and got this suggested solution back from them. Update: 8 August 2008: This still occurs with SnagIt 9… I had thought that maybe they might have fixed it. Of course, if you don’t have SnagIt installed then that won’t solve your problem! Using Task Manager to shut down SnagIt and restart it often brings my taskbar back. I’ve noticed it when I have a lot of Windows open and am trying to do a capture and SnagIt gets ‘hung’. Update: 11 June 2008: I’ve found that sometimes SnagIt causes my taskbar to disappear.

Find all explorer.exe processes - select each, then click End Process for each one.

Click on the Image Name column header to sort the list alphabetically.

If nothing sinister caused it to disappear, it should all come back as it was and you can stop panicking, breathe a sigh of relief, and continue working.

On the Applications tab, click New Task at the bottom right of the window.

Open Task Manager (press Ctrl+Alt+Del, then click Task Manager).

If for some reason it goes missing (you may have killed it using Task Manager, for example, or something more sinister like a virus has deleted it from your processes), then try this first: The content remains unbiased and authentic.A program called explorer.exe controls the display of your taskbar and desktop icons. However, it does not affect our editorial integrity. The above article may contain affiliate links which help support Guiding Tech. It also provides better file search on the computer and much more. Sidebar Gadgets is just one of the features of Google Desktop.

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Right click on the taskbar Google Desktop icon and select “Add Gadgets.” You should be able to choose and install more powerful and useful gadgets. You can lock or unlock the specific gadget from sidebar, and use the Toggle Expanded View for more details of gadgets. While Yahoo! Widgets uses “Dock” to manage the widgets, Google Desktop uses the “Sidebar” to display them. You can enable the feature in the installation by checking “Sidebar with Gadgets” section. Google Desktop ( Update: Google Desktop has been discontinued) is another great tool to get some gadgets working on Windows XP.

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Like Windows 7 gadgets, you can move the widgets to anywhere on desktop, and keep them on top of other windows.Ĭheck out Yahoo! Widgets to get more exciting stuff. You can right click on each widget to control display or configure preferences, or manage them in the dock (which was showed at the right hand side of screenshot above). When you first launch the program, it will pop up several widgets to get you started, including the weather, digital clock, calendar, and much more.

Though the stable version was released more than two years ago, the widgets still work. It can display widgets on the desktop, just like the Gadgets feature in Windows 7.

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Yahoo! Widgets ( update: Yahoo Widgets has been discontinued) is a free application for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. We haven’t tried out yet but from what it looks like on its homepage it provides many gadget and widget options for XP users. One of our readers suggested a third-party tool called Desktop Sidebar. UPDATE: Both the tools we talk about in this article – Yahoo Widgets and Google Desktop – are no longer available. This article talks about two tools that help you add a variety of desktop gadgets to Windows XP.

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But if you are still on XP (don’t worry, more than 50% of people who use personal computers prefer XP), and are wondering how to get these gadgets on your desktop, then read on. By default the gadgets appear on the sidebar, but they can be dragged to anywhere on the screen.īoth Vista and Windows 7 have several useful built-in gadgets like clocks, weather, RSS feed widget etc. Desktop gadgets in Windows was introduced by Vista, and it is there in Windows 7 as well.