The problem we're seeing did not start on my system until I installed 5.51. I experience the same problem. Win XP Pro SP2.
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Thanks Halluci, I might as well do that! The taskbar sometimes also freezes when I right-click on an icon ...
Corky_O, thanks I will try that, although it seems to me that I have already tried it. I wonder if the problem could be related Basic Settings > Performance > Enable Hyperpaint. I don't know what exactly this function does. Setting it to Smallest seemed to help, but then the problem reappeared. The loss of the taskbar is random and unpredictable so far.
When you use the repair function, your PC is contacting the router to get a free IP address. If you have to do a repair every time you start your PC, you might have an IP address conflict. Each PC must either get a free address from the DNS on the router or use a unique IP address which is NOT within the range of the addresses managed by the router DNS. In the properties of your wireless connection, check the properties of the Internet Protoc
Almost everytime I change skins, my taskbar becomes a partially skinned ghost, nothing clickable, but the icons in the notification bar are still active (blinking). The real taskbar has disappeared and I have to restart the windows shell to get it back. The problem seems to have appeared with the two latest builds of WindowBlinds (now 4.51.047). I have been using WindowBlinds since version 3 and never had this very annoying problem which makes WB