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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. ) -- All the Best, Kelly Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP 2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award Troubleshooting Windows XP http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm "Hawk" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Toolbars can't be changed
Hawk;
Yes, that's OK. I'll let Kelly field the other questions. :-) -- 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 |
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