Taskbar - Kelly's Korner??

[Guest]

I've been searching old posts on how to fix a Taskbar (windows XP Home Ed)
that disappears when I remove the 'quick launch' toolbar and why my
individual files disappear when I minimise it and I have to use the ALT+TAB
option to bring them back up again. Going in a creating a new user account
eradicates this problem but I don't want to have lose all my settings and
emails just to fix this.

It seems the most prevalant cure is downloading scripts from
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm - Has anyone had any
downside to downloading this file (sorry Kelly if you are reading this)? I
don't know anything about scripts and don't want to find out later that this
will have caused me more problems.

Also I did find this way other way:

Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete, Process Tab, end all explorer.exe and
iexplore.exe processes .

Type regedit in File - Rum


Delete these three keys.


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckR­ects2
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Stream­s
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Stream­sMRU


Back in Task Manager choose Shutdown menu - Reboot.


Is this procedure ok to do? I think it's getting you to delete registry
keys and I'm not too sure if i want to go down that path....

 

[hvac]

You can trust the info on Kelly's site, I use Her site to correct problems
frequently.
Herman

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Kelly's .reg files and .vbs scripts just automate things so that you do not
have to go into the registry to add keys/values, change keys/values or
delete keys/values. They are quicker also, because all you have to do is
double click a .reg file or .vbs script, instead of plodding through the
registry.

You can try a bunch of things, but if your profile is corrupt...

Taskbar Is Missing When You Log On to Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318027

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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