I noticed that when I click on my "contacts" in Vista mail, they are now in
one of the music players. there are 4 blank stars to the far right of their
names to rank them..lol. It never did this before. How can I get this back to
normal? I also used the software choice in the drop down menu in Window's
defender to disable some of my start up programs and then I noticed that my
mail, desktop, explorer, and iTune icons were missing from the left side of
the bottom task bar. Any idea how to get them back there? I tried dragging
and dropping and that didn't help. I went back to Defender and looked thru
the list and couldn't find anything about disabling mail, explorer, etc.
Any help would be appreciated!!

"Sue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4BE52D58-DBB4-4731-83B8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I noticed that when I click on my "contacts" in Vista mail, they are now
> in
> one of the music players. there are 4 blank stars to the far right of
> their
> names to rank them..lol. It never did this before. How can I get this back
> to
> normal? I also used the software choice in the drop down menu in Window's
> defender to disable some of my start up programs and then I noticed that
> my
> mail, desktop, explorer, and iTune icons were missing from the left side
> of
> the bottom task bar. Any idea how to get them back there? I tried dragging
> and dropping and that didn't help. I went back to Defender and looked thru
> the list and couldn't find anything about disabling mail, explorer, etc.
> Any help would be appreciated!!

Open your Contacts Folder>right click a blank area>Customize folder>from the
drop down change Music Details to Contacts>Apply/OK

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. [DTS] UK

"Sue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4BE52D58-DBB4-4731-83B8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I noticed that when I click on my "contacts" in Vista mail, they are now
> in
> one of the music players. there are 4 blank stars to the far right of
> their
> names to rank them..lol. It never did this before. How can I get this back
> to
> normal? I also used the software choice in the drop down menu in Window's
> defender to disable some of my start up programs and then I noticed that
> my
> mail, desktop, explorer, and iTune icons were missing from the left side
> of
> the bottom task bar. Any idea how to get them back there? I tried dragging
> and dropping and that didn't help. I went back to Defender and looked thru
> the list and couldn't find anything about disabling mail, explorer, etc.
> Any help would be appreciated!!

Did you try right click on the bottom taskbar>click on Lock the taskbar to
remove the check mark, can you see or drag the icons in there now?

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. [DTS] UK

Thank you so much Steve, it worked!!
Sue



"mac" wrote:

>
> "Sue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4BE52D58-DBB4-4731-83B8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I noticed that when I click on my "contacts" in Vista mail, they are now
> > in
> > one of the music players. there are 4 blank stars to the far right of
> > their
> > names to rank them..lol. It never did this before. How can I get this back
> > to
> > normal? I also used the software choice in the drop down menu in Window's
> > defender to disable some of my start up programs and then I noticed that
> > my
> > mail, desktop, explorer, and iTune icons were missing from the left side
> > of
> > the bottom task bar. Any idea how to get them back there? I tried dragging
> > and dropping and that didn't help. I went back to Defender and looked thru
> > the list and couldn't find anything about disabling mail, explorer, etc.
> > Any help would be appreciated!!
>
> Open your Contacts Folder>right click a blank area>Customize folder>from the
> drop down change Music Details to Contacts>Apply/OK
>
> --
> Regards Steve.
> MS-MVP. [DTS] UK
>
>

I couldn't drag them when changing the locked/unlocked. Neither would work. I
had disabled 'quck launch' and I think that's when it happened, looking back
on it. I enabled it and they appeared in the task bar again. Thanks so much
for your interest in helping!
Sue

"mac" wrote:

>
> "Sue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4BE52D58-DBB4-4731-83B8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I noticed that when I click on my "contacts" in Vista mail, they are now
> > in
> > one of the music players. there are 4 blank stars to the far right of
> > their
> > names to rank them..lol. It never did this before. How can I get this back
> > to
> > normal? I also used the software choice in the drop down menu in Window's
> > defender to disable some of my start up programs and then I noticed that
> > my
> > mail, desktop, explorer, and iTune icons were missing from the left side
> > of
> > the bottom task bar. Any idea how to get them back there? I tried dragging
> > and dropping and that didn't help. I went back to Defender and looked thru
> > the list and couldn't find anything about disabling mail, explorer, etc.
> > Any help would be appreciated!!
>
> Did you try right click on the bottom taskbar>click on Lock the taskbar to
> remove the check mark, can you see or drag the icons in there now?
>
> --
> Regards Steve.
> MS-MVP. [DTS] UK
>