Excel menu taskbar disappears when using a powertoy

[John Mills]

Ive installed the Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager
powertoy on a few systems. If Excel is opened in any of the
windows, when you select another window and then go back to
the original window where Excel is running, all the menu
bars in Excel have disappeared. I have to close that copy
of Excel and start a new one to get the menu bars back.
This is all in Excel 2003 on a Windows XP Pro system. Any
info would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mike A]

The powertoys are use-at-your-own-risk utilities, and now you see why!

They are neither tested nor supported by Microsoft - they are
utilities the MS developers created for 'fun'. At least that's what
the EULA (or readme file or something in there) said the last time I
looked at them (circa 1999).

-Mike

Ive installed the Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager
powertoy on a few systems. If Excel is opened in any of the
windows, when you select another window and then go back to
the original window where Excel is running, all the menu
bars in Excel have disappeared. I have to close that copy
of Excel and start a new one to get the menu bars back.
This is all in Excel 2003 on a Windows XP Pro system. Any
info would be greatly appreciated.

Mike Argy
Custom Office Solutions
and Windows/UNIX applications

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[Andrew Guryanov]

I would suggest considering other VDMs:
http://download.com.com/sort/3150-2346-0-1-3.html?

They ARE tested AND supported.
And many of them work everywhere from Win95 to WinXP Tablet edition.

(Should I add I am the author of one of them?

Andrew

 

[John Mills]

No kidding? Theyre not supported? Im shocked...look, of
course I realized theyre not supported. Im asking if anyone
else has seen this and has a fix. I didnt ask what the EULA
said. Thanks a lot for nothing.

 

[Guest]

Wow, thats a good link. I found a couple VDM's there that
will work just fine. Thanks!!!

John

 

[Mike A]

From the MS website:

"Note We've taken great care to ensure that PowerToys operate as they
should, but they are not part of Windows and are not supported by
Microsoft. For this reason, Microsoft Technical Support is unable to
answer questions about PowerToys. PowerToys are for Windows XP only."

I would suggest considering other VDMs:
http://download.com.com/sort/3150-2346-0-1-3.html?

They ARE tested AND supported.
And many of them work everywhere from Win95 to WinXP Tablet edition.

(Should I add I am the author of one of them?

Andrew

Mike Argy
Custom Office Solutions
and Windows/UNIX applications

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