White bar on Desktop

[Guest]

Does anyone know how I can get rid of this white bar off of my desktop? It
runs from top to bottom on the right side.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Common Tasks?

Start | Run | Type: regsvr32 /i shell32 | Click OK |

Reboot.

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[Dennis Marks]

This is concerning posts where the person is supposed to run a command such
as "regsvr32". It would be nice to have a one sentence explanation of why?


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[Sharon F]

Does anyone know how I can get rid of this white bar off of my desktop? It
runs from top to bottom on the right side.

Remember that we can't see your computer... Is it just a white bar or does
it have words or other remarkable features on it? Wild guess is that you
ended up with the common tasks bar on the desktop. If that's the case the
following web page has a fix for this:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_commtask_desktop.htm

 

[Wesley Vogel]

regsvr32 reregisters shell32.dll in the registry. Doing this can remove the
Common Tasks pane form the Desktop, if that is what the white bar is.
Apparently that straightens out
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{00021400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\
shellex\ExtShellFolderViews\{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}

I do not know if it fixes the PersistMoniker value so that it points to
file://%userappdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop.htt, fixes
Desktop.htt or what, but it works.

The string {5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262} identifies either the
CLSID of the COM object responsible for the Web view mode and the Web view
service itself.

It probably still would be nice to have a one sentence explanation of why.

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