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Help I've lost my task bar, start key etc

I tried to turn the sound off using the icon on the bottom task bar and now I've lost everything along the bottom of my screen. I've even lost the start button so I cannot even close the laptop down to restart it. I am working on windows vista basic. Can anyone help please?
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  • Stemma
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    I've tried that but there is nothing there.
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  • Stemma
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    Sorry but still nothing I cannot get anything to click to shutdown.
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  • Stemma
    Stemma Posts: 807 Forumite
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    Thank you, I'm up and running again. I really appreciate your help
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  • Lokolo
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    It it happens again, go to task manager (in vista this is ctrl shift and esc).

    Then go to File, New Task (Run), type explorer.exe

    :)
  • Stemma
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    Lokolo wrote: »
    It it happens again, go to task manager (in vista this is ctrl shift and esc).

    Then go to File, New Task (Run), type explorer.exe

    :)

    Thanks I'll keep a note of that, hopefully I wont need to use it, but the gremlins strike when you least expect them, :beer:
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