Toolbars can't be changed

Most welcome. This was probably due to a third party desktop manager. Pay
mind to when this changes again while loading your programs via your new
install. Good luck and keep us posted. )

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All the Best,
Kelly

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"Hawk" wrote in message
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Active Desktop (+restore Display tabs) - registry patches didn't help
Quick Launch Fix - registry patch didn't help
Save settings registry patch - also didn't help

my conclusion: registry was totally corrupt and as I was so fed up with
it, I decided to reinstall Windows (and so I don't waste your and my
valuable time anymore :-)

anyway, thx for the help Wesley and Kelly!

later,

Hawk

Hawk;

Yes, that's OK.

I'll let Kelly field the other questions. :-)

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In ,
Hawk hunted and pecked:
I get the feeling that there is something terribly wrong with the
registry....

answer to Wesley: 'Do not display any custom toolbars in the taskbar'
= 'Not configured', is this ok?

answers to Kelly:
1) I used your 'Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!' utility and there is
something strange about it: in the 'Remove Specific Toolbars' I
cannot use the Apply button (it is disabled). Maybe you can explain
what the criteria is for disabling this button (something missing in
the registry? wrong permissions? - I am the single user on this PC
and I have administrator rights) 2) There is no way for me to
enable/disable the Active Desktop, I just discovered this: the
'Desktop' tab 'Display Properties' (started from Control Panel) is
missing!!! 3) I always ended the Explorer process and restarted it to
apply all changes BUT as soon as I do this, Explorer forgets for
example that Quick Launch was enabled! 4) When I log off 'Saving your
settings' appear, when I log on on 'Loading your personal settings'
appear, so this looks OK 5) 3rd party tweakers - I used TweakUI from
the PowerToys but I don't think I did something wrong there, i'm
using these things for years so enough to know what i'm doing. 6)
gpedit.msc - I only used this when the problem with the toolbars
occured so that can't be the cause.

Additional information:
1) i'm sure it's not caused by worms, viruses, browser hijacking or
whatsoever (i regularly use Ad-Aware, HijackThis, CWSchredder,
Search&Destroy, Omniquad Antispy, Norton Antivirus etc) 2) creating a
new user in Windows doesn't help - the new user is also unable to
change the toolbars

I hope you experts can help me out...this is driving me nuts and I
would hate it having to reinstall Windows XP