system restore

[Me]

I used "system restore" after a spontaneous re-start of the computer. OK.
Laying aside the issue of spontaneous restarts (?!?!?), I seem to have a new
problem. I have lost the shortcut icons on the left side of the system tray
(near Start), and I cannot drag things back down there from the desktop.
These shortcuts were in-place at the restore-point time, so I am bewildered.

The context for all this was a download of updates for "Spybot Search and
Destroy." Shortly after that download I opened an unrelated (to Spybot)
file and the computer shut down and re-booted itself... I used "system
restore" thinking that doing so would return the system to the exact setup I
had at that "restore point" (right before the download). Everything else
seems OK at this point, but the whole system tray is re-ordered (far right
end: "taskbar") and those shortcuts are absent on the other end. What
worries me is that I can't click and drag these shortcuts back to the
configuration I had before.

 

[Pat Willener]

-----Original Message-----

I used "system restore" after a spontaneous re-start of the computer. OK.
Laying aside the issue of spontaneous restarts (?!?!?), I seem to have a new
problem. I have lost the shortcut icons on the left side of the system tray
(near Start), and I cannot drag things back down there from the desktop.
These shortcuts were in-place at the restore-point time, so I am bewildered.
...

It's called the Quick Launch bar. To restore it, right-
click on an empty area of the task bar, Toolbars, click
Quick Launch to activate it.