Taskbar and Quicklaunch

[Alexander]

Hello,

I'm having something of a problem with Windows XP. I
want to configure the toolbar a certain way and have
those changes stick. For instance, I don't need the
search assistant, so I right click on the toolbar, remove
the checkbox, and it's gone, but after I reboot, I have
it again! Also in the quicklaunch taskbar I have the
icons in a certain order, with the icons that I want
showing showing. Again, when I reboot, they get
scrambled. How can I make these little adaptations
lasting? I mean, it's little stuff, granted, but, as
with many other humans, there are some occassions in
which I would like to have everything be just so, and not
have to go through the process of rearranging everything
all the time. Thanks in advance!

Cheers!
-Alex

 

[Jose Francisco]

Greetings,

By the looks of it, you seem to have a spyware on your computer. The "Search
Assistant" box is spyware. I use to have one those on my system.

Try these programs to check for any spyware that may be on your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp



Thanks and best of luck!

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Alexander: In addition to Jose, follow these steps:

Open Registry Editor and navigate to:

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
In the right-pane, change the value of Userinit to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe,"

(Type the above value exactly as given, including the comma - exclude the quotes)

Close Registry Editor and restart Windows. The Quick Launch settings should be retained now.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Windows 2000 Group Policy Registry Table:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/gp/gpref.asp

Greetings,

By the looks of it, you seem to have a spyware on your computer. The "Search
Assistant" box is spyware. I use to have one those on my system.

Try these programs to check for any spyware that may be on your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp



Thanks and best of luck!