Customize Button In Taskbar Grayed OUt

[Guest]

The "Customize..." Button in The Taskbar and Start Menu Dialog box is grayed
out. How do I activate it please? (e-mail address removed)

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Laurie,

Is this a system on a domain or your personal one?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

"Hide inactive icons" is greyed out in Taskbar Properties:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/traynotify.htm

Ignore the title.

 

[Guest]

Rick, it's not on a domain. I don't know what you mean. It's on my computer
when I click start menu and taskbar.

 

[Guest]

Ramesh, I followed your instructions. But there are only two lines of type
under the Policies - Explorer box in REGEDIT. They are:
ab Default REG_SZ (value not set)
No Drive Type Reg_Dword 0x00000091 (145)

How do I activate the Customize button under these circumstances?

Thank you.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Laurice4,

Check for the two values parallelly under the HKLM hive as well.

 

[Guest]

Ramesh: I don't appear to have an HKLM archive, whatever that is. I even used
search to try and find it and came up with nothing. In REGEDIT I don't appear
to have anything indicating an HKLM. How do I activate my Customize taskbar
button, please?

 

[Rock]

Ramesh: I don't appear to have an HKLM archive, whatever that is. I even used
search to try and find it and came up with nothing. In REGEDIT I don't appear
to have anything indicating an HKLM. How do I activate my Customize taskbar
button, please?

:

HKLM is short HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the registry, seen when running regedit.