W2k - How to restore all icons to the taskbar after an explorer crash?

AnitaPeterson

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Apr 24, 2001
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Hi,

I apologize, the title might not be explicit enough.

Here's what happened:

On my Windows 200 machine, I have several processes running in the background - three BitTorrent downloads, my ISP's Net Assistant, the ASUS shortcut and so on. They all have icons in the taskbar, right next to the clock.

While cleaning up a folder, I changed the name of a movie file, which was mispelled.

Of course, I had a Windows Explorer error - I assume it must've been because of that stupid preview function - and after a brief moment of showing an empty blue display, the desktop recovered, minus the applications in the taskbar.

Now, I know that the 3 Bittorrents are still running (I checked with a quick Ctrl-Alt-Del), but I can't see them anymore.

Is there any way to restore all the running processes to the taskbar WITHOUT restarting them (for obvious reasons I'd rather not do that...) ?