no task buttons on taskbar

[akakie]

Running Win XP Pro 2002 with SP 1 on Dell 4550 2 Ghz 512 ram.
Hardware firewall/router, Symantec antivirus.

I installed a diabetes management program from LifeScan. It messed up taskbar. Uninstall didn't fix it. No error messages.

Quicklaunch bar has a left edge marker but no right edge marker with taskbar unlocked. All the quicklaunch icons are strung out across the taskbar. There are no running tasks buttons visible. Alt-tab will switch between tasks. Language bar is visible with a left boundary marker.

This is true only for the account I was using when I installed the program. Other accounts have no problem with the taskbar.

I also can't get Tweak UI to work, so I can't use it to look at the problem.

Although I could move everything to a new account, it is a royal pain to do so. I'm hoping someone has an answer for how to fix this without reinstalling XP or some equally drastic method.

Any suggestions? Please.

[lj50]

Have you tried doing a system restore, if not try that first. Pick a restore point prior to the date that you downloaded that program.

[beeboy]

If restore does not work try this.
Put your XP CD in.

Go to START-->RUN and type in SFC /SCANNOW

That will bring up the system file checker; it scans all your system files, and fixes/replaces any that are missing.

[akakie]

Thanks for the suggestions. Alas, neither solved the problem.

System restore politely told me it couldn't restore from that checkpoint -- probably too old.

SFC paused occasionally to complain that I didn't have the right system disk in place, but proceeded when I clicked retry. It completed, but had no apparent effect.

Any other ideas?

BTW, I saw the same problem reported on windows-help, but without an answer. At least I'm not alone.

Akakie

[rafeeqc]

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rafeeqc

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Originally Posted by akakie

Running Win XP Pro 2002 with SP 1 on Dell 4550 2 Ghz 512 ram.
Hardware firewall/router, Symantec antivirus.

I installed a diabetes management program from LifeScan. It messed up taskbar. Uninstall didn't fix it. No error messages.

Quicklaunch bar has a left edge marker but no right edge marker with taskbar unlocked. All the quicklaunch icons are strung out across the taskbar. There are no running tasks buttons visible. Alt-tab will switch between tasks. Language bar is visible with a left boundary marker.

This is true only for the account I was using when I installed the program. Other accounts have no problem with the taskbar.

I also can't get Tweak UI to work, so I can't use it to look at the problem.

Although I could move everything to a new account, it is a royal pain to do so. I'm hoping someone has an answer for how to fix this without reinstalling XP or some equally drastic method.

Any suggestions? Please.