I don't believe you are talking about quick launch. I don't know any sure cure unless you restore to an earlier date. You can try a few other things. Open a program and at the top (Title Bar) right click it and click Maxmize and than click Minimize. Something else with a program open to maximize hold down on the Alt Key First and than the Spacebar and press N Try My Documents. It should Minimize to the Taskbar. You can also open a few things and click on Default. If you have changed your Icons in All Programs and click Default they will also change to Default. That's just a minor detail.

I will try this. I keep forgetting about right click options. I went into tools and clicked the pull down menu and clicked on customize. What came up were all the "buttons" I am missing. But all it indicated was that I needed to drag each button and place it at the top. I am not good at dragging but I could find no other options.Are there any??? I could not find any place where there were check marks, as are on newer programs. BTW, I only use MSWord, so these buttons were at the top once and now are gone. As for finding out how much space on my disks, another question I had, the right click did work for me in My Computer. Thanks.

If it is Sea Monkey browser, look up in the upper left corner ,and to the left of the Back arrow, File and Home buttons, are these little areas that have a downward pointing arrow head and a couple of rows of dots. Click on one of those to expand the tool bar. several times I have done that and closed my tool bars with out meaning to and have to click those areas to expand them.

Bigack, I'm glad it worked for you! Right after I'd hit the "submit" button I got to thinking that what I wrote is correct for Internet Explorer, but I don't know what browser you use, and I'm not familiar with any of the others...