After recent windows updates, some users' task bar disappears

Hello,
I have just installed a number of updates to my LAN via WSUS.
After these updates were installed on the WIN 7 workstations, some of the users are reporting that their taskbar is missing.
Once they reboot, it comes back up, and after a couple days go by, it disappears again.
Has anyone else seen this issue with the recent updates?
Is there a hotfix for this other than rebooting?

Hi,
Sorry for the late reply.
When this issue occurred, please check the event viewer to see if there is any error information about this problem.
Also, check this following registry path to make sure winlogon launch Windows Shell:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell = “explorer.exe”
UserInit = “userinit.exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell = “explorer.exe”
UserInit = “userinit.exe”
We can try to install the hotfix to update the related file to check how it works:
The Taskbar is reset to the default settings when you use the "Automatically Log On" feature in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979155
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