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Irv
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      10-08-2007
First let me say that I do have the Quick Launch Toolbar turned on.

I created a new toolbar called My Toolbar. I created this by right clicking
on the Desktop.....Taskbar and then selecting toolbars>new toolbar. I then
directed it to the folder that I have on my personal drive E:. It works fine
and sits in the taskbar next to the tray icons.

Whenever I reboot the machine this toolbar disappears and I have to create
it again. How can I make it reappear on boot? Is there something in the
registry that needs to be set??

Thanks alot to you all,
Irv


 
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Thai Berry \(U.S.\)
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      10-08-2007
the toolbar should be retained even after a reboot.

what is happening is that when you restart your windows explorer is crashing
*What a surprise in vista something crashing. lol*

thus your settings are not retained...

try LOGGING OFF and back on again to see if the toolbar is retained...

then if it is, do a restart and see again if it is retained



"Irv" <> wrote in message
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> First let me say that I do have the Quick Launch Toolbar turned on.
>
> I created a new toolbar called My Toolbar. I created this by right
> clicking
> on the Desktop.....Taskbar and then selecting toolbars>new toolbar. I
> then
> directed it to the folder that I have on my personal drive E:. It works
> fine
> and sits in the taskbar next to the tray icons.
>
> Whenever I reboot the machine this toolbar disappears and I have to create
> it again. How can I make it reappear on boot? Is there something in the
> registry that needs to be set??
>
> Thanks alot to you all,
> Irv
>
>



 
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Irv
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      10-08-2007
I followed your instructions. I logged off and back on it it still appears.
When I then reboot it is gone.
How can I fix this??

"Thai Berry (U.S.)" wrote:

> the toolbar should be retained even after a reboot.
>
> what is happening is that when you restart your windows explorer is crashing
> *What a surprise in vista something crashing. lol*
>
> thus your settings are not retained...
>
> try LOGGING OFF and back on again to see if the toolbar is retained...
>
> then if it is, do a restart and see again if it is retained
>
>
>
> "Irv" <> wrote in message
> news:17C33FAC-DACC-4283-90CC-...
> > First let me say that I do have the Quick Launch Toolbar turned on.
> >
> > I created a new toolbar called My Toolbar. I created this by right
> > clicking
> > on the Desktop.....Taskbar and then selecting toolbars>new toolbar. I
> > then
> > directed it to the folder that I have on my personal drive E:. It works
> > fine
> > and sits in the taskbar next to the tray icons.
> >
> > Whenever I reboot the machine this toolbar disappears and I have to create
> > it again. How can I make it reappear on boot? Is there something in the
> > registry that needs to be set??
> >
> > Thanks alot to you all,
> > Irv
> >
> >

>
>
>

 
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Thai Berry \(U.S.\)
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      10-08-2007
if you add something else from the available toolbars does that vanish too
after the reboot?

this is not exactly related to your question but I use a small fantastic
program
to do a multitude of things, including what you are trying to do..

its called truelaunchbar http://truelaunchbar.com/download.html

its a shareware.. but in my opinion its worh every penny




"Irv" <> wrote in message
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>I followed your instructions. I logged off and back on it it still
>appears.
> When I then reboot it is gone.
> How can I fix this??
>
> "Thai Berry (U.S.)" wrote:
>
>> the toolbar should be retained even after a reboot.
>>
>> what is happening is that when you restart your windows explorer is
>> crashing
>> *What a surprise in vista something crashing. lol*
>>
>> thus your settings are not retained...
>>
>> try LOGGING OFF and back on again to see if the toolbar is retained...
>>
>> then if it is, do a restart and see again if it is retained
>>
>>
>>
>> "Irv" <> wrote in message
>> news:17C33FAC-DACC-4283-90CC-...
>> > First let me say that I do have the Quick Launch Toolbar turned on.
>> >
>> > I created a new toolbar called My Toolbar. I created this by right
>> > clicking
>> > on the Desktop.....Taskbar and then selecting toolbars>new toolbar. I
>> > then
>> > directed it to the folder that I have on my personal drive E:. It
>> > works
>> > fine
>> > and sits in the taskbar next to the tray icons.
>> >
>> > Whenever I reboot the machine this toolbar disappears and I have to
>> > create
>> > it again. How can I make it reappear on boot? Is there something in
>> > the
>> > registry that needs to be set??
>> >
>> > Thanks alot to you all,
>> > Irv
>> >
>> >

>>
>>
>>



 
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Irv
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      10-08-2007
"If you add something else from the available toolbars does that vanish too
after the reboot?"

I checked the Desktop toolbar and the media player toolbar. They where both
lost on reboot.



 
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Thai Berry \(U.S.\)
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      10-08-2007
your windows explorer is crashing while you are shutting down, as I said
before.

this is 100% sure. I have seen this problem many times...

the only way is to start to find out what is running and making explorer to
crash..

perhaps disabling some startup programs, and explorer extensions using these
programs: (FREE)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys.../AutoRuns.mspx

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

download is on the bottom of the page for this, and run it as an
administrator by right clicking on the exe and selecting run as administraor

find the ones in PINK that are non microsft and remove the ones you dont
absolutly need




"Irv" <> wrote in message
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> "If you add something else from the available toolbars does that vanish
> too
> after the reboot?"
>
> I checked the Desktop toolbar and the media player toolbar. They where
> both
> lost on reboot.
>
>
>



 
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Irv
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      10-09-2007
I kow that you feel 100% sure that explorer is crashing, but I feel pretty
confident that is not the case.
I have spent all evening shutting everything off that was running and left
only window core programs. Still the same problem.
I still feel that it is a setting in the registry.
Thanks

"Thai Berry (U.S.)" wrote:

> your windows explorer is crashing while you are shutting down, as I said
> before.
>
> this is 100% sure. I have seen this problem many times...
>
> the only way is to start to find out what is running and making explorer to
> crash..
>
> perhaps disabling some startup programs, and explorer extensions using these
> programs: (FREE)
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys.../AutoRuns.mspx
>
> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
>
> download is on the bottom of the page for this, and run it as an
> administrator by right clicking on the exe and selecting run as administraor
>
> find the ones in PINK that are non microsft and remove the ones you dont
> absolutly need
>
>
>
>
> "Irv" <> wrote in message
> news:F98F3572-1ECC-47C7-B4F6-...
> > "If you add something else from the available toolbars does that vanish
> > too
> > after the reboot?"
> >
> > I checked the Desktop toolbar and the media player toolbar. They where
> > both
> > lost on reboot.
> >
> >
> >

>
>
>

 
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Thai Berry \(U.S.\)
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      10-09-2007
Yes you may indeed be right! There are settings in the registry that can do
that..

but why would they have changed? Anyway..

There is a security console for XP that may work for vista as well that has
that exact option..

you can try it.. perhaps you would need to run by right clicking on the exe
and selecting run as administrator..

see screenshot http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7531/sshot1ej2.jpg
see the last check box: disallow toolbars on taskbar

you can find this console here:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm

tell me if this works for you...

These settings normally are in a snap in for security policies... if this
doesnt work tell me
so I can try to find it in vista..




"Irv" <> wrote in message
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>I kow that you feel 100% sure that explorer is crashing, but I feel pretty
> confident that is not the case.
> I have spent all evening shutting everything off that was running and left
> only window core programs. Still the same problem.
> I still feel that it is a setting in the registry.
> Thanks
>
> "Thai Berry (U.S.)" wrote:
>
>> your windows explorer is crashing while you are shutting down, as I said
>> before.
>>
>> this is 100% sure. I have seen this problem many times...
>>
>> the only way is to start to find out what is running and making explorer
>> to
>> crash..
>>
>> perhaps disabling some startup programs, and explorer extensions using
>> these
>> programs: (FREE)
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys.../AutoRuns.mspx
>>
>> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
>>
>> download is on the bottom of the page for this, and run it as an
>> administrator by right clicking on the exe and selecting run as
>> administraor
>>
>> find the ones in PINK that are non microsft and remove the ones you dont
>> absolutly need
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Irv" <> wrote in message
>> news:F98F3572-1ECC-47C7-B4F6-...
>> > "If you add something else from the available toolbars does that vanish
>> > too
>> > after the reboot?"
>> >
>> > I checked the Desktop toolbar and the media player toolbar. They where
>> > both
>> > lost on reboot.
>> >
>> >
>> >

>>
>>
>>



 
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Irv
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      10-09-2007


Yes you may indeed be right! There are settings in the registry that can do
that..

but why would they have changed? Anyway..

There is a security console for XP that may work for vista as well that has
that exact option..

you can try it.. perhaps you would need to run by right clicking on the exe
and selecting run as administrator..

see screenshot http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7531/sshot1ej2.jpg
see the last check box: disallow toolbars on taskbar

you can find this console here:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm

tell me if this works for you...

These settings normally are in a snap in for security policies... if this
doesnt work tell me
so I can try to find it in vista..

I tried that per your instructions. I made the settings and they did a cold
boot.
It did not work. I then tried a reboot, and it still does not work.
Whenever I go back into the program they are checked again, by
themselves...the elves are at work!!


 
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Thai Berry \(U.S.\)
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      10-09-2007
I searched a little to find more info..

In XP and in some version of vista there is a group policy editor that you
can change these settings

they talk about the group policy editor here
http://afjohansson.spaces.live.com/b...5970!332.entry

but home premium seems to not have this..

what version of vista do you have?





"Irv" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> Yes you may indeed be right! There are settings in the registry that can
> do
> that..
>
> but why would they have changed? Anyway..
>
> There is a security console for XP that may work for vista as well that
> has
> that exact option..
>
> you can try it.. perhaps you would need to run by right clicking on the
> exe
> and selecting run as administrator..
>
> see screenshot http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7531/sshot1ej2.jpg
> see the last check box: disallow toolbars on taskbar
>
> you can find this console here:
>
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
>
> tell me if this works for you...
>
> These settings normally are in a snap in for security policies... if this
> doesnt work tell me
> so I can try to find it in vista..
>
> I tried that per your instructions. I made the settings and they did a
> cold
> boot.
> It did not work. I then tried a reboot, and it still does not work.
> Whenever I go back into the program they are checked again, by
> themselves...the elves are at work!!
>
>



 
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