Interesting Behavior after update to SP3 when restoring the Address Bar optioin in Taskbar

[Jeffrey W. Bowen]

Hello,

I posted a question in the "Update" newsgroup requesting info on how to get
the address bar option back on the taskbar after the Windows XP SP3 update
eliminated it.

I received links to various sites that offer solutions to my query as well
as a polite notification that I posted to the wrong group.

The solutions offered were very helpful except for one slight hitch.

I could only get the address bar back in my profile which is an
administrator using any of the solutions.

None of the other accounts whether administrator or non-administrator could
repeat the same success as in my personal account.

I even uninstalled the service pack and restored the computer to the way it
was before which of course brought back the address bar everywhere.
I then reinstalled the service pack, and yet again only my profile could
restore the address bar.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thank you for your assistance in advance.

Peace,
Jeffrey Bowen
(e-mail address removed)
formerly Sky Captain

 

[Rey Santos]

Address missing from toolbars after installing Windows XP SP
http://www.windowsreference.com/win...rom-toolbars-after-installing-windows-xp-sp3/

 

[Jeffrey W. Bowen]

Thank you Rey for the info, but I have already resolved that issue.

My concern is not that SP3 removed the address bar option from the task bar,
but that after applying the approprate hack of my choice (the one suggested
at the site your link took me to), only one of the four profiles on my XP
Home machine is able to restore the address bar option to the taskbar.

Peace,
Jeffrey Bowen
(e-mail address removed)
formerly Sky Captain

My q

 

[Rey Santos]

Try changing the permissions for that file.
How to set, view, change, or remove special permissions for files and
folders in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308419

 

[Jeffrey W. Bowen]

Hello Rey,

Thanks again for your help.

Since I have Windows XP Home Edition, I can only get security access in safe
mode. I tried this already and it did not help as I hoped.

However, your suggestion sparked a reminder that had to change some
permission settings in my registry to gain delete some unwanted keys that
were unnecessary in my opinion, though I would not advise others to do the
same who do not know or understand the potential risks involved.

So I went back into the registry and reset ownership in the permissions of
the HKLM and its subcontainers to Administrators\[domain]\Administrators
(domain=name of computer or network domain). I would expect that this should
actually be set for Users\[domain]\Users to make the address bar available
to all user profiles besides just administrators.

I then checked but didn't change the permissions throughout the registry.

When I logged off and then back on, all of the default tool bars including
the address bar were back where they belong in all of the administrator
profiles.

Again thanks for your help.

Peace,
Jeffrey Bowen
(e-mail address removed)
formerly Sky Captain

 

[Rey Santos]

Glad to know you able to sort it out.

I was also thinking setting permissions in the registry, like adding
Everyone to Group or users giving Full control and Read permissions to the
dll file. But on searching for the dll file in the registry I came up with
more than two entries under HKLM that it became more complicated specially
for those not well versed on registry edits.

Thanks for letting us know.
--
Rey

Hello Rey,

Thanks again for your help.

Since I have Windows XP Home Edition, I can only get security access in safe
mode. I tried this already and it did not help as I hoped.

However, your suggestion sparked a reminder that had to change some
permission settings in my registry to gain delete some unwanted keys that
were unnecessary in my opinion, though I would not advise others to do the
same who do not know or understand the potential risks involved.

So I went back into the registry and reset ownership in the permissions of
the HKLM and its subcontainers to Administrators\[domain]\Administrators
(domain=name of computer or network domain). I would expect that this should
actually be set for Users\[domain]\Users to make the address bar available
to all user profiles besides just administrators.

I then checked but didn't change the permissions throughout the registry.

When I logged off and then back on, all of the default tool bars including
the address bar were back where they belong in all of the administrator
profiles.

Again thanks for your help.

Peace,
Jeffrey Bowen
(e-mail address removed)
formerly Sky Captain