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Thunderbird and Mozilla icons missing in Windows taskbar, how can this be fixed.

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I discovered two problems this afternoon.

First, the menu bar containing; file, view, bookmarks, etc., disappeared from my Mozilla browser. I can't find a way to get it back. I use the recently bookmarked menu every day and this is very frustrating.

Second, the Thunderbird and Mozilla icons disappeared from the Windows taskbar and I can't find a way to get them back. Fortunately I had placed icons on my desktop and at least I can get to my mail and browser that way. I would appreciate help in restoring the icons to the taskbar.

The first thing I noticed today was the missing menu bar in Mozilla. I finally shut the browser down and performed a restore, restoring it back two days. When it rebooted, I only had a background on the monitor, nothing else. After waiting a few minutes, it appeared that the computer was not going to reboot all the way so I shut the computer down and rebooted again. This time the icons, start menu and task bar came up, but the icons in the task bar were missing. The quick launch icons on the far right did come in.

I tried dragging and dropping the desktop icons for Thunderbird and Mozilla, but it has a circle with a diagonal line in it (I suppose blocking it) and that does not work.

Can someone please help.

I discovered two problems this afternoon. First, the menu bar containing; file, view, bookmarks, etc., disappeared from my Mozilla browser. I can't find a way to get it back. I use the recently bookmarked menu every day and this is very frustrating. Second, the Thunderbird and Mozilla icons disappeared from the Windows taskbar and I can't find a way to get them back. Fortunately I had placed icons on my desktop and at least I can get to my mail and browser that way. I would appreciate help in restoring the icons to the taskbar. The first thing I noticed today was the missing menu bar in Mozilla. I finally shut the browser down and performed a restore, restoring it back two days. When it rebooted, I only had a background on the monitor, nothing else. After waiting a few minutes, it appeared that the computer was not going to reboot all the way so I shut the computer down and rebooted again. This time the icons, start menu and task bar came up, but the icons in the task bar were missing. The quick launch icons on the far right did come in. I tried dragging and dropping the desktop icons for Thunderbird and Mozilla, but it has a circle with a diagonal line in it (I suppose blocking it) and that does not work. Can someone please help.