Quick Launch Toolbar Does Not Stay On

[bravocasa]

I select the toolbar property feature that shows the
quick launch items. I shut down properly without any
problems. Upon re-start, the show quick launch toolbar
feature is disabled and the quick launch items do not
appear. I must manually re-select to show the quick
launch toolbar.

 

[Kevin]

Have you used or intalled a power toy, tweak ui, tweak
xp, etc...?
sounds like a registry key has been changed or deleted

 

[Guest]

No doubt the Registry is where the fix will be, but I
need to know what key and what fix.

 

[Kelly]

Common issue as of late. I am still working on it. Some information listed
here under Quick Launch:
Cleaning Up XP: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_c.htm#cleanup

Quick questions: If this behavior appeared after running spyware cleaners,
etc. did you also clean out your System Volume Information - Restore Points?
Also, if the former applies, did you happen to save the logfile(s) that was
used to cleanup?

 

[Guest]

I have read most of the posts on this problem. I have been experiencing the same problem in W2K for about a month. The registry key that is missing is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\ClassicShell
In the Explorer subfolder, there is no ClassicShell. Can anyone else confirm this? I suspect that the repair option with the OS CD that some have employed, restores this file. I have not done this yet...interested in seeing if others find the same conditions.

 

[Guest]

OS Windows XP Pro - single computer - cable modem
I am having the same sort of problems described by many here. I had a number of adware, spyware, popup problems. I ran Ad-aware, Spy-bot and AVG and seem to have resolved those problems.

Now I have three issues I know of.

1. Quick launch is not present after each logon on all profiles. It can be started from the task bar menu.

2. On all profile logons I get an error box that says "idlist,:256:2468, C:\Documents" can not be found.

3. MS Photo Edit (Office 2000) will operate Ok on an administrator profile, but on a limited profile it claims no file associations. It will open but will open no files. It will not open a file from explorer. I have checked file associations in folder options. I can change that profile to administrator and it works, change back and it does not.

These three problems started after the cleaning.

I did not delete restore points and did a restore to a point previous to the cleaning with no change. I will look but should have whatever log files the programes saved when run.

Jerrell