Start Bar Disappearing

Please help me out here. It's never done this before until a few days ago, but my start bar at the bottom of the screen keeps disappearing whenever I open up AOL. I don't THINK i've done anything that would change this. It stays up for other programs so far. I have it set for "always on top" though. It acts like it's supposed to do this, because it stays up for a second of two before disappearing. I can't move my pointer down there to get it back either. The only thing I can do is minimize AOL, which gets tedious.

(I have AOL 7.0 btw)

Any idea on how to fix this?

(Also, when I boot up my computer, it comes up with an error message saying, "Cannot locate 2ndsrch.dll ". What program uses that file so I can delete it?)

Thanks!

 

DoomDragon6--One comment, one possible fix and one work-around.
1) Comment--I have come across sites that do that (cover the taskbar including the Start button). Everything is back to normal when I exit the site.
2) Perhaps you are in full window view. Click F11.
3) Click the Windows key, or Control+Esc. That should restore the Start button.
I have understood this happens only on the one website and is something new. Have you rebooted recently? Also is it possible to drag the AOL window up a bit?

 

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Well it wasn't EXACTLY any of those... But it was in full window view for whatever reason (F11 didn't do it though.) I remember due to an accidental pushing of keys that the AOL window kept going into the smaller view. Apparently I maximized instead of restoring. It's back now. Thanks for the help!

 

DoomDragon6--Thanks for posting back. Always good to learn what solved a problem.