34. The Case of the Missing Taskbar
Does your Taskbar appear as a tiny line on one edge of your screen, so that when you move your mouse pointer over it, the line only gets a tiny bit wider? Don't panic. Your Taskbar isn't being sucked into the dark abyss behind your monitor's edge. You've just told it to disappear--twice.
Let's assume you like the Taskbar to jump out of the way when you aren't using it, so you've set the auto-hide option (right-click a blank area on the Taskbar, select Properties, select Auto hide, and click OK). Then, in a moment of Taskbar-be-gone passion (or more likely, by mistake), you've also manually clicked and dragged the Taskbar off the screen (hold the mouse pointer over its edge, and when it changes to a double-pointed arrow, click and drag it off screen). Now when you hold the mouse pointer over the Taskbar's edge, Windows 95 attempts to drag the bar back on screen (remember, auto hide is on), BUT it can only get as large as the Taskbar size you've defined (at this point, a tiny line at the edge of the screen).
What's the solution? Hold the mouse pointer over the tiny Taskbar edge, and when it changes to a double-pointed arrow, click and haul the Taskbar back up on screen where it belongs.
Microsoft® Windows®95 Hints & Tips by Stuart Martin.
