HALP! Tech issue

[Dallas-Dakota]

I run Windows 7 on my laptop....But I appear to have shut it down or something?

My taskbar and background the icons on it are gone, I can't adjust the sound volume of the laptop. But I can turn increase/decrease screen brightness.(Those two usually done by things on the keyboard)

So uhh, I'm afraid I closed something or such with task manager( I misclicked on something while closing down some stuff with Task Manager, considering my laptop was making a odd recurring sound that I COULD turn louder/quiter/off with my manual laptop sound volume)

So I can open new stuff if I know the exact program name or the location with Task Manager(Which I can open by ctrl-alt-del, ofcourse..)

But yeah, this is mighty inconvenient ><
Does anybody know how to help me?

Thenks for any thoughts! Please comment ASAP ><

[valadil]

Is it still like that after a reboot?

You should be able to get your taskbar back by running explorer.exe or iexplore or something to that effect from the task manager.

[5iL3Nc3R]

Try starting up explorer.

ctrl + shift + esc

File --> New Task "explorer.exe"

[Dallas-Dakota]

Valadil: Problem being, I couldn't reboot. And the power button is set to ''sleep mode''.

5iL, thenks! That seems to have fixed it! I'd tried explorer, windows and some stuff, but not explorer.exe durp, thenks again!

[KuReshtin]

Remember that watever Windows is set to do if you press the power button, if you actually hold the power button in for 5-10 seconds, the computer will shut down.

[Roland St. Jude]

Sheriff: Problem seems to be solved.