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Case of the disappearing toolbar in XP SP2
Everything was fine and then about two days ago my XP SP2 started acting up.
What it does... Every time I reboot or do a hard boot the toolbar at the bottom of the screen rearranges itself. It unlocks and totally hides the quick launch toolbar and two other toolbars I created which before now were working fine. They are simply folders under "my documents" that hold shortcuts. How can I fix this disappearing toolbar problem once and for all. It's getting annoying having to reset it each time I boot up. I'm on an HP Pavilion 2.3Ghz Celeron with 512MBs of RAM and an 80 Gig HDD, using Windows XP Home, SP2. Thanks ahead of time. |
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Case of the disappearing toolbar in XP SP2
Taskbar Is Missing When You Log On to Windows:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318027 From Kelly's Korner: Taskbar Repair Tools Plus: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm Also from Kelly's Korner - Line 164: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm And: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_t.htm JS "UmmaGumma" wrote in message ... Everything was fine and then about two days ago my XP SP2 started acting up. What it does... Every time I reboot or do a hard boot the toolbar at the bottom of the screen rearranges itself. It unlocks and totally hides the quick launch toolbar and two other toolbars I created which before now were working fine. They are simply folders under "my documents" that hold shortcuts. How can I fix this disappearing toolbar problem once and for all. It's getting annoying having to reset it each time I boot up. I'm on an HP Pavilion 2.3Ghz Celeron with 512MBs of RAM and an 80 Gig HDD, using Windows XP Home, SP2. Thanks ahead of time. |
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Case of the disappearing toolbar in XP SP2
Thank you. I'll try these. I did a restore. I noticed that my restore
function has been turned off somehow. It only goes back to Tuesday of this week. In addition, the problem I have seems to be related to my explorer. Every time I hit the "up" button the screen scrambles and then the icons on the desktop disappear and I have to reboot. I've also noted that when I first load my browser (I use Firefox because IExplorer just hangs so much and always did) I get a popup advertising an escort service. I am megaprotected from that sort of thing too (with the Telus eProtect). The site that pops up is http://promo.betfair.com/poker/cnd12...=4409&sid=1386. I'm thinking perhaps I should make sure I have an incremental backup (I burn my docs to a DVD-RW) and redo the whole hard drive. Drastic measures, so we'll see. "JS" @ wrote in message ... Taskbar Is Missing When You Log On to Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318027 From Kelly's Korner: Taskbar Repair Tools Plus: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm Also from Kelly's Korner - Line 164: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm And: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_t.htm JS "UmmaGumma" wrote in message ... Everything was fine and then about two days ago my XP SP2 started acting up. What it does... Every time I reboot or do a hard boot the toolbar at the bottom of the screen rearranges itself. It unlocks and totally hides the quick launch toolbar and two other toolbars I created which before now were working fine. They are simply folders under "my documents" that hold shortcuts. How can I fix this disappearing toolbar problem once and for all. It's getting annoying having to reset it each time I boot up. I'm on an HP Pavilion 2.3Ghz Celeron with 512MBs of RAM and an 80 Gig HDD, using Windows XP Home, SP2. Thanks ahead of time. |
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Case of the disappearing toolbar in XP SP2
On Apr 18, 4:37*pm, "UmmaGumma" wrote:
Thank you. I'll try these. I did a restore. I noticed that my restore function has been turned off somehow. It only goes back to Tuesday of this week. In addition, the problem I have seems to be related to my explorer. Every time I hit the "up" button the screen scrambles and then the icons on the desktop disappear and I have to reboot. I've also noted that when I first load my browser (I use Firefox because IExplorer just hangs so much and always did) I get a popup advertising an escort service. I am megaprotected from that sort of thing too (with the Telus eProtect). The site that pops up ishttp://promo.betfair.com/poker/cnd123.asp?rfr=4409&sid=1386. I'm thinking perhaps I should make sure I have an incremental backup (I burn my docs to a DVD-RW) and redo the whole hard drive. Drastic measures, so we'll see. "JS" @ wrote in . .. Taskbar Is Missing When You Log On to Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318027 From Kelly's Korner: Taskbar Repair Tools Plus: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm Also from Kelly's Korner - Line 164: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm And: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_t.htm JS "UmmaGumma" wrote in message ... Everything was fine and then about two days ago my XP SP2 started acting up. What it does... Every time I reboot or do a hard boot the toolbar at the bottom of the screen rearranges itself. It unlocks and totally hides the quick launch toolbar and two other toolbars I created which before now were working fine. They are simply folders under "my documents" that hold shortcuts. How can I fix this disappearing toolbar problem once and for all. It's getting annoying having to reset it each time I boot up. I'm on an HP Pavilion 2.3Ghz Celeron with 512MBs of RAM and an 80 Gig HDD, using Windows XP Home, SP2. Thanks ahead of time.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Your system has now been infested by some type of malware / spyware that is hijacking your PC. Relying out he on-line security packages of most ISPs is just not enough. I have seen times were the PCs protected by this was un-protected by "service" interruptions. Also, the Internet must be using or no protection is of (unlucky) or the PC is "locked" down (better but not usuable. You need to clean up your PC with locally installed software . Download and update these free softwares: AVG AntiVirus Free AVG AntiMalware Free Spyware Terminator AD Aware Spybot: Search and Destroy (SuperAntiSpyware is fine to detect. To clean up, they want you to pay for the removal module. Stay away/) |
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Case of the disappearing toolbar in XP SP2
Thanks. I know. When Firefox did an update it appears to have uninstalled by
ADBLOCK PLUS. So I reinstalled it. I will try Spybot S&D. Know it and love it. I don't have to load it up, which my ISP's eProtect Package will object to. If nothing else what HAS come out of this which is good is that I'm done a lot of backups. Wish I had a dedicated backup drive. Hmmmm. I wonder if you can do that to the new Skydrive from Microsoft. "smlunatick" wrote in message ... On Apr 18, 4:37 pm, "UmmaGumma" wrote: Thank you. I'll try these. I did a restore. I noticed that my restore function has been turned off somehow. It only goes back to Tuesday of this week. In addition, the problem I have seems to be related to my explorer. Every time I hit the "up" button the screen scrambles and then the icons on the desktop disappear and I have to reboot. I've also noted that when I first load my browser (I use Firefox because IExplorer just hangs so much and always did) I get a popup advertising an escort service. I am megaprotected from that sort of thing too (with the Telus eProtect). The site that pops up ishttp://promo.betfair.com/poker/cnd123.asp?rfr=4409&sid=1386. I'm thinking perhaps I should make sure I have an incremental backup (I burn my docs to a DVD-RW) and redo the whole hard drive. Drastic measures, so we'll see. "JS" @ wrote in . .. Taskbar Is Missing When You Log On to Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318027 From Kelly's Korner: Taskbar Repair Tools Plus: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm Also from Kelly's Korner - Line 164: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm And: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_t.htm JS "UmmaGumma" wrote in message ... Everything was fine and then about two days ago my XP SP2 started acting up. What it does... Every time I reboot or do a hard boot the toolbar at the bottom of the screen rearranges itself. It unlocks and totally hides the quick launch toolbar and two other toolbars I created which before now were working fine. They are simply folders under "my documents" that hold shortcuts. How can I fix this disappearing toolbar problem once and for all. It's getting annoying having to reset it each time I boot up. I'm on an HP Pavilion 2.3Ghz Celeron with 512MBs of RAM and an 80 Gig HDD, using Windows XP Home, SP2. Thanks ahead of time.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Your system has now been infested by some type of malware / spyware that is hijacking your PC. Relying out he on-line security packages of most ISPs is just not enough. I have seen times were the PCs protected by this was un-protected by "service" interruptions. Also, the Internet must be using or no protection is of (unlucky) or the PC is "locked" down (better but not usuable. You need to clean up your PC with locally installed software . Download and update these free softwares: AVG AntiVirus Free AVG AntiMalware Free Spyware Terminator AD Aware Spybot: Search and Destroy (SuperAntiSpyware is fine to detect. To clean up, they want you to pay for the removal module. Stay away/) |
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