Tim,
Force Classic Start Bar to disabled. By default it is NOT CONFIGURED
meaning not set
Also, in my original reply I said if you have XP Pro you can set the
policy otherwise you cannot except by making a registry entry
You are doing the policy setting as the local machine, but if part of
the domain then you need to use USER COMFIGURATION...
Why do you use the old Regedit4? We are no longer using Windows 98... so
it should be changed to:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
Of course it still works with Regedit4 but technically it's not the old
FAT (95/98) versions of Windows any longer. If you want to split hairs
saying you can install XP as FAT then yes, you can but why would you
want to?
--
SPAMCOP User
I think "SPAMCOP user" meant to say the value should be 0 [zero] and not
1 like he actually stated (a small oversight I think) IF you are wanting
the XP style start menu and NOT the CLASSIC one.
SO:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSimpleStartMenu"=dword:00000000
Also, a simpler way might be to 'force' the XP (not classic) start
menu on the machine in question via the Group Policy Editor found on
the 'Administrative Tools' menu. Open the GPO editor and navigate to
this setting:
Local Computer Policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates >
Start Menu and Taskbar
...then within this 'folder' there is a setting: "Force Classic Start
Menu" and set it to 'disabled'
This will force the system to display the Start Menu in the new XP
style no matter what else was set and force it to stay that way.
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
We have a workstation running on Windows XP Professional SP2,
connected to a
Windows SBS 2003 server. There are 4 users using 4 different accounts
with
this workstation. All of them prefer using the usual Start Menu,
instead of
the Classic Start menu. Unfortunately, ONE of the users' Start Menu
kept
"sticking to" the Classic menu. We tried changing it to the normal
menu, but
after 2 or 3 days, it will go back to the Classic Start menu. The
other users
do not experience this issue.
Is there any way to stop this? Thank you.