[giganick]

About 6 months ago in Maximum PC mag it had some registry edits to hide the task tray, and now I want to reverse that edit, but I cant find my magazine or a site that tells me how to do it. If anyone could tell me how to do this I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your help!

[PangingJr]

if i understand your post correctly, these are the reg info...

use this reg info to hide all of the icons in the notification area.

;hide all icons in the notification area.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoTrayItemsDisplay"=dword:00000001

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use this reg info to show icons in the notification area...

;UNDO >hide all icons in the notification area.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoTrayItemsDisplay"=dword:00000000

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reboot your PC or restart your Explorer shell to see the changes.

this VBScript will restart the Windows Explorer shell..

'restart_XP_Explorer_Shell.vbs
'For XP Pro only.

Message = "Restart the XP Explorer Shell ?"

YeaNay = MsgBox(Message, vbYesNo, "Panging :p")

If YeaNay = 6 Then

On Error Resume Next
For each process in GetObject("winmgmts:"). _
	ExecQuery ("select * from Win32_Process where name='explorer.exe'")
	process.terminate(0)

Next : MsgBox "Click OK" & vbcr & vbcr, 4096, "Done!"

Else : MsgBox "CALLED OFF!", 4096, "G-Bye!"

End If

[giganick]

Worked great. Has been making me mad for about a week now. Now if you could maybe help me with my next problem...I dont know if it was something that i did to the registry to do this or what, but for some reason everytime I reboot, and not come out of hibernate, My Documents always opens up, and the language bar which i turn off always comes back and also my quick launch goes away, which I want on. Thanks for your help. Wish I would have payed more attention in school.....!!

[PangingJr]

i could try to help you on that but it seems that you are having more than one registry settings problems there, in order to work on another system registry i'd need to have a very clear understanding and communications as well, which's not easy for me in this case.. hope you understand.

anyway, let's try this one first and see if it will help things in the taskbar works a bit better.

go to "kellys-korner-xp.com" and look for a .reg file called "restoretaskbar.reg",
D/L the file, backup your registry, and import the .reg file and see..

and as for the "My Documents always opens up", on the same site go to this page www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_mydocs.htm
then see the info under the section "To Stop Windows Explorer from opening My Documents" and "My Documents Folder Opens Upon Boot" and see if these helps.

for the rest of problems will be later after you post back...

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