Strange behavior customizing IE toolbar

[Peter]

I have Google Toolbar installed and McAfee Viruscan. I was trying to hide
the McAfee icon by right-clicking the toolbar and unticking that
item...Google disappeared. If I untick Google then McAfee
disappears.....weird.
Also when I untick Lock Toolbars to drag the Google toolbar up to share the
same line as the Address bar and then lock again it wont stay where I put
it.

Any ideas anyone?

 

[PA Bear]

Uninstall VirusScan or Google Toolbar.

 

[Peter]

Thanks, but isn't that the easy way out? Anyway I want to keep them.

 

[Alan Edwards]

No, the easy way is to select the wrong one when checking or
unchecking.

It is not unheard of.
I have a friend who has a mismatch with Yahoo and Google bars
but she is quite able to manage the situation and told me not to
bother investigating.
No spyware, parasites or adware present. The machine was clean.


If you are keen...
Use this to track the Registry accesses:
Regmon: http://www.sysinternals.com/


You can try this to see if the toolbars get reset:
http://mvps.org/sramesh2k/reg/­IEToolbar.reg
(Report back if it works, as I don't recall seeing any feedback on
this one)


....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html



In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Peter"

 

[Alan Edwards]

A little glitch in the URL in my response.
Try this:

You can try this to see if the toolbars get reset:
http://mvps.org/sramesh2k/reg/IEToolbar.reg
(Report back if it works, as I don't recall seeing any feedback on
this one)


....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html



In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Peter"

 

[Peter]

It worked like a charm. Thanks very much....it's strange as I had only 3
days ago done a complete format and reinstallation of Windows following a
slight screw-up with partitions and Bootmagic. So I was puzzled that
anything could be wrong. I'm well protected - no bugs/viruses etc.

 

[Peter]

....now if I could just get the "Did you know" to show the items in
Start/Help & Support......that died 2 weeks ago (the rest of H & S works).
Tried every fix as per Kelly's Troubleshooting XP pages...nada.

 

[Alan Edwards]

You should try an XP group for that one.
Give details of what fixes you tried.
It is not a page I have ever looked at but the "Did you know" section
is not very enlightening for me as well.
This is all I see:
-----quote
When you are connected to the Internet, this area will display links
to timely help and support information. If you want to connect to the
Internet now, start the New Connection Wizard and see how to establish
a Web connection through an Internet service provider.
---unquote

Obviously, I am connected but H&S doesn't seem to know that.
Perhaps it expects a dial-up connection?

....Alan

 

[Peter]

Exactly what I see... it's supposed to show news related links. It is
controlled by an XML file which I can see on my HD under
C:Windows\PCHealth\Helpctr\Config\News

But for some reason it isn't showing correctly.

I already posted on XP and several non MSFT groups....people reported the
same thing, so am assuming it's a MSFT problem.

 

[Alan Edwards]

Out of my area, I am afraid.

I will have a good look around later but a quick search indicates it
works with dial-up but not broadband.
I tried changing EnableAutodial to 1 in the Registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings as one suggested but to no avail.

You might do a Google Groups search for newsver.xml and look at the
workaround by Ramesh (Jun 2)
I don't need to see it badly enough to go to that trouble.

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html


In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Peter"

 

[Peter]

Thanks, I'll have a look but I've done everything from Ramesh's site and
what you just mentioned... it doesn't want to cooperate. No loss really I
suppose!

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

You should try an XP group for that one.
Give details of what fixes you tried.
It is not a page I have ever looked at but the "Did you know" section
is not very enlightening for me as well.
This is all I see:
-----quote
When you are connected to the Internet, this area will display links
to timely help and support information. If you want to connect to the
Internet now, start the New Connection Wizard and see how to establish
a Web connection through an Internet service provider.
---unquote

Obviously, I am connected but H&S doesn't seem to know that.
Perhaps it expects a dial-up connection?

Alan,

The last time I investigated this feature all it did when I was connected
is an HTTP HEAD request and the result of that was displayed
as an indication of "last updated" to replace that message.

Now, I am seeing the same external symptom that you are seeing,
i.e., no change in the Home page message but behind the scenes
besides the aforementioned HTTP HEAD request it also did a GET for

http://support.microsoft.com/support/worldwide/en-us/headlines/newsblock02.xml

What is interesting is that when I check the box
Search only What's new in Windows XP
and search for some the content implied by that XML file
(while online) the new articles are listed under
the Microsoft Knowledge Base hits.


Kewl.


Robert
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