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    Quick Launch Bar icons not showing

    Hi All,

    My system has been behaving erratically these past few days. I have just installed critical updates for windows vista basic 32bit and at restart, some of my quick launch bars icons were showing blanks. I have tried several system restores without much joy there. Trojan and virus scans have also drawn a blank. Can someone help, before I resort to a total system reinstall?


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    Re: Quick Launch Bar icons not showing

    Right click on the taskbar , click on Toolbars and click on New Toolbar:
    Now type: %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch and press Enter.
    Your quick launch should come up.

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    Re: Quick Launch Bar icons not showing

    Quote Originally Posted by dinesh View Post
    Right click on the taskbar , click on Toolbars and click on New Toolbar:
    Now type: %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch and press Enter.
    Your quick launch should come up.
    I have Vista Home Premium 32 on a Dell, little over a year old and my experience not much more. My Uniblue registry cleaner license had expired and I decided on trying RegCure this year, downloaded, got and entered the new license, and being a good housekeeper proceeded to uninstall the Uniblue. After a restart, I noticed there were no quick launch icons or chevron hash on my task bar. Well, I thought every day being a new day of problems I'll
    have to 'Start', click all my programs again and 'Pin to Quick Launch'. Nothing happens, no message. So I right click on the task bar and get a Big Trouble
    Message: "C:\Users\Jon\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\QuickLaunch refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted [what?], or that you are connected to the internet or your network,
    and try again. If still can't be located the information might have been moved to a different location." Additionally, right click task bar > click toolbars to
    get the second window with: Address, Windows Media Player, Links,Tablet Pc Input Panel, iTunes, Desktop, Quick Launch, New Toolbar and they are all
    grayed out. So, I don't know, I went ahead and 'ran the scan' with my new RegCure and it found all the usual supects and then at the end said "255 Empty Registry Keys". That is unusual. I stopped there, did not 'run the cleaner', and came to the Forums. Am I in Big Trouble?, or can it be fixed? Thank you.

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    Re: Quick Launch Bar icons not showing

    REgCure is a spyware. Remove it or else it will screw your whole computer in few more days.

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    Re: Quick Launch Bar icons not showing

    Quote Originally Posted by dinesh View Post
    Right click on the taskbar , click on Toolbars and click on New Toolbar:
    Now type: %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch and press Enter.
    Your quick launch should come up.
    I tried this since my Quick Launch and icons are gone but it came up as:

    "Path does not exist. Check the path and try again"

    Any other suggestions?

    Thank you,
    Barb

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    Re: Quick Launch Bar icons not showing

    Open Windows Explorer and type shell: Quick Launch and press ENTER. Let me know if anything comes up.

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    Re: Quick Launch Bar icons not showing

    Dinesh,

    Sorry but, did you mean in the "Start Search" box? I tried it there and all that came up was Calculator.

    Tkx,
    Barb

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    Re: Quick Launch Bar icons not showing

    Open Windows Explorer by Pressing Windows Logo key+E.
    Computer opens up. Then press F6 to locate Address bar and type the above mentioned command. Or you can simply type it in the Start Search Box.

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    Re: Quick Launch Bar icons not showing

    It says Windows cannot find shell: Quick Launch.

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    Re: Quick Launch Bar icons not showing

    Are you the only user on this computer?
    Try this with any other user account.
    Seems like its time to back up data and do a clean install.
    Sorry.

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