Vista - Taskbar Icons

Is there away that this will also work when you have the task bar at the side?

Hello Graphixboy, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Is this screenshot with the tutorial applied?

Thanks for the welcome, and yes I did edit the reg and it works find if the task bar is at the bottom.

Umm. I'll have a play with it tonight to see what I can find on it. I'll post back my findings for you.

I have looked and hunted, but I cannot find the registry entry responsible for this option for the vertical taskbar.

I'll keep hunting and will update the tutorial if I can find it.

Thanks Brink...

I never had such quick resonponses from a forum before...

Lets hope you can find the solution.

Cheers
Steve

Hello, around about April 1st The taskbar buttons disappeared so when I minimise a window the only way I can find it is by using the 3d-flip icon. I tried your method in regedit listed above - no joy. I tried the fix for making icons appear - no joy. Tried switching back to buttons (-255 MinWidth in regedit) but still not luck, Each time restarting computer. I have scanned computer with windows defender and AVG free and not found anything. Also did a system restore yesterday but unfortunately wasnt able to select a date before the 4 th April. Any ideas , its driving me nuts? Regards Ross

Hello Ross, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You might see if running a sfc /scannow command may be able to fix it for you.

If not, then see if creating a new administrator account to see if the taskbar buttons work in it. If yes, then you can save your settings by copying the contents in the old user account's C:\Users\(user name) folders into the new account's corresponding C:\Users\(user name) folders. If everything copies over ok and checks out, then you can delete the old user account.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

The scf / scannow didnt reveal anything so created a new user account and that has solved the problem. Many thanks, Ross

You're welcome Ross.