Customizing the IE6 Toolbar

[Mark Segal]

I use IE6 and just recently I have been having problems with the toolbar
buttons.
I have selected the buttons I need and then I click on " Text Options "and
select " Show text labels " and large icons. And then I lock the toolbar.
But then after a couple of days the " Show text labels " reverts to " no
text labels " and small icons.
It's only a tiny thing but it bugs me that I have to change the toolbar
every few days!!
Can any one help me or have any ideas what this might be?
I don't think it's a virus or anything like that.
I use AVG and Sygate firewall.

 

[History Fan]

What operating system are you using? If Windows 98 or ME, there is
always the repair option with IE. Not sure if that is available with Win
2000.

 

[Mark Segal]

I'm on Win XP Pro SP2. As far as I know you can't just repair IE6. I know
about sfc /scannow but that is too drastic just for a little problem with
the toolbar!!

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I'm on Win XP Pro SP2. As far as I know you can't just repair IE6. I know
about sfc /scannow but that is too drastic just for a little problem with
the toolbar!!

That actually depends on whether you installed IE6sp1 before installing
XPsp1. If so, you would still have setupwbv.dll to use from the Run...
dialog as described in KB194177. Or apparently sufficiently:

rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance


If the problem would be fixed by an IE Repair (as described in KB194177)
it might be fixed by the mass re-registration provided by XPsp2's
iexplore.exe /rereg

However, there are some errors in the ieuinit.inf which need to be corrected
to make that command work properly.

Specifically I found the following errors on mine (mostly to do with whether
there is a DllRegisterServer entry point or just a DllInstall entry point
in each of the following modules:

%11%\comctl32.dll,NI
%11%\digest.dll,NI
%11%\inetcpl.cpl,NI (I deleted the first and left this.)
;%11%\msapsspc.dll (I actually deleted this line.)

Making those four changes allowed the whole section to execute cleanly.


BTW in view of the fact that the KB194177 repair is always
done during a boot when no other interference is possible I think it
should be advisable to stop as many other applications (if not services)
as well first but the command does nothing to encourage such an ideal.
Perhaps doing it after a safe mode boot would be a simple, effective
compromise.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle