Explorer Bar on desktop

[Mason]

Somehow I have the explorer bar (that has folder tasks,
other places, and details) showing on my desktop. It
moved my icons over and takes about 1/4 of my left
screen. I cannot find a way to remove it from my desktop.
I went into explorer and tried some of the various folder
view settings. I also tried the normal "Properties" when
you right click on the desktop. Any help would be
appreciated.

R/S,
Mason

 

[David Candy]

Type in Start - Run
regsvr32 /i shell32

 

[Mason]

I did that and nothing changed. I forgot to mention that
I restarted, and that I killed the explorer.exe process
in task manager and then reopened it from the run.

 

[Mason]

I did a quick google search with your recommendation in
it and came up with this:
http://www.mcse.ms/message123030.html
and added the other steps with this one and after restart
it worked.
Basically the regsvr32 /i shell32 re-initialized explorer
by re-registering the dll in the system? Thank you so
much for your help.
Mason

 

[David Candy]

It caused by a missing value that means the desktop gets treated as an ordinary folder. However the missing key itself isn't what causes the bar to appear, something else (probably folder sniffing) interacts with it.

Only the shell32 one puts back the missing key.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Mason,

The link you pointed out applies for a different problem and not for Common tasks in Desktop.

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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Using ToolbarCop to remove the unwanted Toolband, Toolbar Icons and BHO:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/toolbarcop.htm

Internet Explorer Newsgroup FAQs:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/IEFAQ.htm
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I did a quick google search with your recommendation in
it and came up with this:
http://www.mcse.ms/message123030.html
and added the other steps with this one and after restart
it worked.
Basically the regsvr32 /i shell32 re-initialized explorer
by re-registering the dll in the system? Thank you so
much for your help.
Mason