Move the mouse cursor to a blank part of the taskbar.  Hold down the left mouse button and then drag toward the bottom of the screen to move the task bar back to the bottom.

Steve

You probably have the taskbar unlocked.  In that circumstance, a press and drag will move the whole bar to another side of the computer.  Simply press the tool bar and slide it back to the bottom.   Once it's in place, right click on the tool bar and select Lock the taskbar.

That should fix it.

Good luck,

Jane

and also just hope your customise notification area doesn't go down hill like mine did and you have to end up editing the registry.. apparently if it gets too large eg too many icons in the customise selection it can become corupted, or so said the tutorial i read opn how to fix it

Thank you very much!! What a dummy am I.

Thank you so much!!! What a dummy am I!

Hey, don't be so hard on yourself:smileywink:  This is how we all learn. 

Happy computing

Jfane