Quick Launch problem

Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can someone
tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)? I have over
140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I could restore
just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler. Thanks.......

One Hundred and Forty QuickLaunch icons ? -

They are stored at:

\Documents & Settings\'LoginName'\Application Data\
Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

"-Nisko-" wrote in message
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Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can someone
tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)? I have over
140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I could restore
just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler. Thanks.......

restore point

"-Nisko-" wrote in message
news:TL6Ag.105566$IZ2.12797@dukeread07...
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can someone
tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)? I have over
140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I could restore
just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler. Thanks.......

-Nisko- wrote:

Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them).

Do you mean that the quicklaunch toolbard goes missing
or that its still there and there are no icons on it anymore ?

Can someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)?

Search on Quick Launch.
They're normally in
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick
Launch

I have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I could restore
just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler.

If they are going missing from that folder, you
have a serious problem that needs to be fixed.

-Nisko- wrote:
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can someone
tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)? I have over
140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I could restore
just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler. Thanks.......


Get a second(larger)harddisk and make a ghostimage
with Gost2003 on that(compressed).
My last one: c8.5GB) to 4.3GB backup.
When in trouble:restore disk.
when nice and stable: backup disk.
I can keep several backup this way, and kill
some of the older ones on occasion.

Sjouke Burry wrote:

-Nisko- wrote:
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them).
Can someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a
backup)? I have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a
royal nuisance. If I could restore just that part from a backup,
life would be a lot simpler.

R. McCarty's is the straightforward/easy solution.

Get a second(larger)harddisk and make a ghostimage
with Gost2003 on that(compressed).
My last one: c8.5GB) to 4.3GB backup.
When in trouble:restore disk.
when nice and stable: backup disk.
I can keep several backup this way, and kill
some of the older ones on occasion.

That is much more involved than necessary, but I find that
especially useful for doing incremental Windows installations.
Currently I use Partition Manager 2005. You just make a copy(s) of
the Windows partition. It's a Windows program that does the work on
a reboot. I keep PartitionMagic around as a backup disk manager in
case Partition Manager doesn't do a particular task.

I do that - but my most current Ghost is about a week old.


"Sjouke Burry" wrote in message
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-Nisko- wrote:
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can
someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)? I
have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I
could restore just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler.
Thanks.......
Get a second(larger)harddisk and make a ghostimage
with Gost2003 on that(compressed).
My last one: c8.5GB) to 4.3GB backup.
When in trouble:restore disk.
when nice and stable: backup disk.
I can keep several backup this way, and kill
some of the older ones on occasion.

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...
-Nisko- wrote:

Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them).

Do you mean that the quicklaunch toolbard goes missing
or that its still there and there are no icons on it anymore ?

This time, the toolbars are missing.


Can someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)?

Search on Quick Launch.
They're normally in
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Quick Launch

I have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I
could restore just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler.

If they are going missing from that folder, you
have a serious problem that needs to be fixed.

I have Partition Commander. Plz explain how you use it for this purpose.
Thanks....


"John Doe" wrote in message
...
Sjouke Burry wrote:

-Nisko- wrote:
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them).
Can someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a
backup)? I have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a
royal nuisance. If I could restore just that part from a backup,
life would be a lot simpler.

R. McCarty's is the straightforward/easy solution.

Get a second(larger)harddisk and make a ghostimage
with Gost2003 on that(compressed).
My last one: c8.5GB) to 4.3GB backup.
When in trouble:restore disk.
when nice and stable: backup disk.
I can keep several backup this way, and kill
some of the older ones on occasion.

That is much more involved than necessary, but I find that
especially useful for doing incremental Windows installations.
Currently I use Partition Manager 2005. You just make a copy(s) of
the Windows partition. It's a Windows program that does the work on
a reboot. I keep PartitionMagic around as a backup disk manager in
case Partition Manager doesn't do a particular task.

I had 8 or 9 sections with QuickLaunch icons in them. These are also gone.
If I restore (as you've described below), will those sections re-appear?
Each section has a certain type of QuickLaunch icons in them, i.e. Backup,
Graphics, Disk Utilities, etc.


"R. McCarty" wrote in message
...
One Hundred and Forty QuickLaunch icons ? -

They are stored at:

\Documents & Settings\'LoginName'\Application Data\
Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

"-Nisko-" wrote in message
news:TL6Ag.105566$IZ2.12797@dukeread07...
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can
someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)? I
have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I
could restore just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler.
Thanks.......

"-Nisko-" wrote in message
news:1ncAg.352396$5Z.288594@dukeread02...
I had 8 or 9 sections with QuickLaunch icons in them. These are also
gone.
If I restore (as you've described below), will those sections re-appear?
Each section has a certain type of QuickLaunch icons in them, i.e. Backup,
Graphics, Disk Utilities, etc.

Yes as long as you don't go back to BEFORE you created the different layers
of icons.
In windows 9x we used to delete the shelliconcache file and reboot to
rebuild the icons when corrupt.


The following maybe helpful.


Corrupted Icons

If the icons on your desktop are corrupted, you can reset them.

Search your system for a file called "IconCache.db". It will be hidden, so
you will need to view hidden files to find it. The usual location is
Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data.
Once you have found it, delete it and reboot.
If the system will not let you delete it, reboot in to safe mode and do it
from there and then reboot again.
When you login again, your icons should be recreated correctly.

This is similar to a trick performed on older operating systems where you
delete a file called shelliconcache.

You can also do it with the TweakUI for Windows XP Powertoy, using the
repair icons function.





"R. McCarty" wrote in message
...
One Hundred and Forty QuickLaunch icons ? -

They are stored at:

\Documents & Settings\'LoginName'\Application Data\
Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

"-Nisko-" wrote in message
news:TL6Ag.105566$IZ2.12797@dukeread07...
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can
someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)?
I
have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I
could restore just that part from a backup, life would be a lot
simpler.
Thanks.......

"-Nisko-" wrote:

I have Partition Commander. Plz explain how you use it for this
purpose.

I don't know about Partition Commander.

To make incremental copies of your Windows installation with
Partition Manager 2005.

.... install it

.... make your Windows XP partition smaller than half of the
available space

.... copy it to the free space

.... make sure the copy is hidden after the reboot... right-click on
the target partition and select "unhide" then right-click on the
same target partition and select "hide"... that sounds redundant,
but if I don't do that, after the reboot the copy is incorrectly
visible to Windows

Note: I always change the Partition Manager setting so that copied
partitions are supposedly hidden. But maybe the program gets
confused that way. Maybe leaving that setting alone so that it does
not hide the copied partition will allow you to just right-click and
select "hide" after you make/plan/setup the copy. In any case, I
have to change that attribute at least once in order for the copied
partition to be set to hidden during the reboot process.

.... once you have a solid backup copy of Windows, you can shrink
that partition and move it to the right on the disk so your current
Windows can be enlarged

Thanks....

You're welcome. Please post in context next time, in other words
post below the text you are replying to, like I'm doing.

Good luck.

Next time I'll try this - but, if I understand correctly, this is for the
Desktop, not the Quick Launch.


"JAD" wrote in message
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"-Nisko-" wrote in message
news:1ncAg.352396$5Z.288594@dukeread02...
I had 8 or 9 sections with QuickLaunch icons in them. These are also
gone.
If I restore (as you've described below), will those sections re-appear?
Each section has a certain type of QuickLaunch icons in them, i.e.
Backup,
Graphics, Disk Utilities, etc.

Yes as long as you don't go back to BEFORE you created the different
layers
of icons.
In windows 9x we used to delete the shelliconcache file and reboot to
rebuild the icons when corrupt.


The following maybe helpful.


Corrupted Icons

If the icons on your desktop are corrupted, you can reset them.

Search your system for a file called "IconCache.db". It will be hidden, so
you will need to view hidden files to find it. The usual location is
Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data.
Once you have found it, delete it and reboot.
If the system will not let you delete it, reboot in to safe mode and do it
from there and then reboot again.
When you login again, your icons should be recreated correctly.

This is similar to a trick performed on older operating systems where you
delete a file called shelliconcache.

You can also do it with the TweakUI for Windows XP Powertoy, using the
repair icons function.





"R. McCarty" wrote in message
...
One Hundred and Forty QuickLaunch icons ? -

They are stored at:

\Documents & Settings\'LoginName'\Application Data\
Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

"-Nisko-" wrote in message
news:TL6Ag.105566$IZ2.12797@dukeread07...
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can
someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)?
I
have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I
could restore just that part from a backup, life would be a lot
simpler.
Thanks.......

"John Doe" wrote in message
...
"-Nisko-" wrote:

I have Partition Commander. Plz explain how you use it for this
purpose.

I don't know about Partition Commander.

To make incremental copies of your Windows installation with
Partition Manager 2005.

... install it

... make your Windows XP partition smaller than half of the
available space

... copy it to the free space

... make sure the copy is hidden after the reboot... right-click on
the target partition and select "unhide" then right-click on the
same target partition and select "hide"... that sounds redundant,
but if I don't do that, after the reboot the copy is incorrectly
visible to Windows

Note: I always change the Partition Manager setting so that copied
partitions are supposedly hidden. But maybe the program gets
confused that way. Maybe leaving that setting alone so that it does
not hide the copied partition will allow you to just right-click and
select "hide" after you make/plan/setup the copy. In any case, I
have to change that attribute at least once in order for the copied
partition to be set to hidden during the reboot process.

... once you have a solid backup copy of Windows, you can shrink
that partition and move it to the right on the disk so your current
Windows can be enlarged

Thanks....

You're welcome. Please post in context next time, in other words
post below the text you are replying to, like I'm doing.

Good luck.

Thank you - but I'm not feeling well. When I'm better, I'll re-read this
post (because, right now, I'm not following it).

"-Nisko-" wrote in message
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Next time I'll try this - but, if I understand correctly, this is for the
Desktop, not the Quick Launch.

Its for ALL icons the QL IS on the desktop



"JAD" wrote in message
...

"-Nisko-" wrote in message
news:1ncAg.352396$5Z.288594@dukeread02...
I had 8 or 9 sections with QuickLaunch icons in them. These are also
gone.
If I restore (as you've described below), will those sections
re-appear?
Each section has a certain type of QuickLaunch icons in them, i.e.
Backup,
Graphics, Disk Utilities, etc.

Yes as long as you don't go back to BEFORE you created the different
layers
of icons.
In windows 9x we used to delete the shelliconcache file and reboot to
rebuild the icons when corrupt.


The following maybe helpful.


Corrupted Icons

If the icons on your desktop are corrupted, you can reset them.

Search your system for a file called "IconCache.db". It will be hidden,
so
you will need to view hidden files to find it. The usual location is
Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data.
Once you have found it, delete it and reboot.
If the system will not let you delete it, reboot in to safe mode and do
it
from there and then reboot again.
When you login again, your icons should be recreated correctly.

This is similar to a trick performed on older operating systems where
you
delete a file called shelliconcache.

You can also do it with the TweakUI for Windows XP Powertoy, using the
repair icons function.





"R. McCarty" wrote in message
...
One Hundred and Forty QuickLaunch icons ? -

They are stored at:

\Documents & Settings\'LoginName'\Application Data\
Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

"-Nisko-" wrote in message
news:TL6Ag.105566$IZ2.12797@dukeread07...
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can
someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a
backup)?
I
have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If
I
could restore just that part from a backup, life would be a lot
simpler.
Thanks.......