Hi Experts, Menu taskbar at bottom and top disappeared  since two days.  I am unable to click menu-  When I want to shut down  I have to press ctrl+del+alt  which appears dialog containing  log off / switches but shutdown disappeared forcing to choose logoff instead of shutdown!!.  Even run recivery mode doies not inmprove nor appeared (TWO WHITE STRIPS)AT TOP AND BORTTOM.but only background screen.  i HAVE TO RRE-INTALL UBUTNTU-8.10 FROM SCRATCH.  ANY SOLUTION IS FORTHCOMING?? -sriranga(76ysold) <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Manish <<a href="mailto:manishsinha.tech@gmail.com">manishsinha.tech@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hardeep Singh wrote: > > Probably he means he can't see Windows in the boot menu. This has happened > to me everytime I've tried to install Ubuntu on my PC from scratch (had to > reinstall a couple of times for several reasons). The trick lies in > What do you mean from scratch? A fresh installation? > installing grub to the bootsector of the partition. Once you've done that, > just load Windows, use Easy BCD and add an entry for Ubuntu to Vista/XP > bootloader. I know some people may prefer to use Grub as their primary > Vista bootloader can boot Ubuntu as well? An alternative is to load GRUB from Vista bootloader but AFAIK windows bootloader can't chainload. > bootloader but I think Vista bootloader simply looks better. I just wish > Ubuntu provided an automated way of doing this. For eg. Offering an option > to either use grub or add an Ubuntu entry to the current bootloader. > Looks better? Bootloader has nothing to do with looks, its about functionality. If you want a pleasing looking bootloader try Fedora, or you can manually modify the background of GRUB from Ubuntu too. Regards, Manish -- ubuntu-in mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a> </blockquote></div>