IE 6.0 Custom Toolbar Keeps Resetting

[bergers10]

After customizing and locking my toolbar in IE 6.0, it
resets to the original default each time I restart the
computer. I'm using Windows XP OS. Any help will be
appreciated.

To be specific -- address bar is moved all the way to the
left and standard buttons are placed just to the right of
the address. I use unlock toolbar, then set it up, then
lock toolbar.

Any suggestions would be helpful. THANKS.

 

[Mike Burgess]

bergers10,
Odd Toolbar Behavior
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/ietips.htm#Odd
Download: ResetBrowserToolbar.reg

Note: "AUTOTKIT.EXE" from HP is known to cause Toolbar resets.

HKLM\..\Run: [AutoTKit] C:\hp\bin\AUTOTKIT.EXE
The fix was to stop the program Autotkit.exe from running at startup
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Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
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[Robert Aldwinckle]

After customizing and locking my toolbar in IE 6.0, it

resets to the original default each time I restart the
computer. I'm using Windows XP OS.

What shows if you close IE and reopen it?
After you close it is iexplore.exe gone from Task Manager's Processes?
(Ctrl-Shift-Esc,Ctrl-Tab,i,... press i enough times to prove that)

Or if you prefer, open a command window
and enter:
tasklist /v /fi "IMAGENAME EQ IEXPLORE.EXE"

Close whatever it is that is holding iexplore.exe in the active task list
before you close the one that you changed. Otherwise your changes
would not be holding because the properties of the last IE window would
replace them.

Unfortunately, I don't know how you are going to detect hidden windows
which run under the same PID. What I would try is to perform the first
two steps above which would demonstrate that something was still holding
iexplore.exe open. Then I would kill that process (whether I could see
a window for it or not). Then I would reopen an IE window and redo
the customization (if necesssary) and try again. If a hidden window
was still present after that procedure you would know that something
had affected IE's initialization and would have to find a way to deal with that
before you would have any hope of preserving your customizations.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle