Taskbar buttons

On my laptop, my taskbar disappears unless I have my language
bar/google search thing on. The buttons on the taskbar do not come
up. I wil pull up a program (like Internet explorer, for example),
and it does not make a taskbar button. If I minimize it, I have to
go to the Task Manager to pull it back up. I have searched all over
my computer, but cannot find a way to bring my buttons on. I have
seen ways to fix it, but they use terms that I do not understand.
If you know what wrong with it, and can simplify the solution, your
reply would be of great help. :)

Taskbar down the bottom? or menu bar at the top?
If up the top right click and choose customize.
If bottom
Go to start and right click and choose propertites and then
choose task bar and then make sure the "keep task bar on top of
other items" is checked.
I think this is what you are saying?

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I could not follow some of the advice given because this computer is at a library. The person who was in charge of the library's computers did not know what was going on.

I forgot how to come here Saturday but I posted this on another site:
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Firefox, not Explorer. And whoever was here and turned everything on must have clicked on the Firefox button. It was 12:59 and the library was supposed to open at 1:00. Nothing that happened during those first 10 minutes was "normal".
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thanks
~Vipin

viper 159 wrote:
When a LabVIEW executable is run, it generate two taskbar buttons (with the same name) in the task bar each of them pointing to the same window (panel). Is there a way to prevent it from creating two buttons?
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Great attitude, NightOwl041, and in the spirit of my contributions to this thread as well!
I did want to make a minor correction:
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Crady P. wrote:
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Nope. This is not correct.
Photoshop CS4 released well before Windows 7 did, and even before a beta version of Windows 7 was available.
Photoshop CS4 Released: October 2008, developed in 2007 and 2008.
Windows 7 Released: October 2009, public betas available starting December 2008.
Note that there is no overlap here. Photoshop CS4 was targeted for use with Vista, not Windows 7. Vista did not have TaskBar Live Preview Thumbnails, though it did offer some "hover over the TaskBar button" thumbnail support for running applications. I don't believe there was any capability to put an arbitrary image in those thumbnails, however - that's what Windows 7 added.
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