Frozen Taskbar

[philwes83170]

I'm having an odd problem I've never run into before. I run Windows XP SP2 on a corporate domain. I'll lock my Desktop while away from my desk for a few minutes. When I return and ulock it, my Taskbar will be frozen. I cannot click any of the Quicklaunch icons, open the Start Menu or switch to any of the windows using the taskbar. The programs themselves work fine and I can ALT-TAB between open programs without any problems.

After a minute or two it will start working fine. I've watched task manager and there are no unusual processes running and no extra processor activity.

It takes a few minutes for it to happen after I lock the desktop. It almost appears to be some kind of hibernation mode.

Tried searching for some answers on the web but haven't found anything similar. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[stduc]

How about network activity? Is anything on or about the taskbar associated with a network drive or device?

 

[JockMullin]

Hmmm smells a bit like power management/hibernation. I would make sure those are turned off and see if that changes anything.

Jock

 

[bcastner]

Are your servers Novell Netware?

 

[philwes83170]

Nope, Nope and Nope....

A hibernation thing was my first guess also. Disabled everything I could think of and no luck.

 

[bcastner]

Hunch: Try disabling Active Desktop.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000593.htm