show quick launch

windows xp home ed. I keep loosing my quick launch in my task bar. I right click on my start and go to properties to task bar and I put a check mark in
show quick launch and click on apply I have to do this everytime I reboot or at startup how can I keep it on all the time like it use to be. ?

thank you

 

Some have reported the problem you're having being the result of something called "Search Assistant" find its way into your computer.

Look in Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs for "Search Assistant" and if found, uninstall it.

 

Just wanted to mention the obvious, for anyone else reading this thread: are you sure "Lock the Taskbar" is checked?

Johanna

 

Hello Bob,

Has to be unlocked first - added - then locked if you want. I don't bother locking it.

Regards - Charles

 

My quick launch is also missing. I do not have the Search Assistant program nor does locking the taskbar help. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

Mike

 

show quick Luanch

I unlock and lock toolbar did not work still loose it at reboot

I also look in control pannel for Search Assistant none there I also run hijack and no search there either.

I rebuild my icons also nothing seens to fix it. just keeping everyone up to date.

thank you

 

On that right click to properties, in the "Taskbar" tab, do you have "Keep the taskbar on top of other windows" checked, and "Auto hide the taskbar" unchecked? Just checking. try toggling them, and reboot, see what happens.

Johanna

 

bobm735,

Judging by some of the entries in your HJT log currently in the security section, my guess is that your quick launch problems may be because of a VX2 infection, and will deal with that there.

Mike,

So we can rule that out for you, copy and paste the following command into the address bar then hit enter.

javascript:navigator.userAgent

Copt the text of the resulting window and paste it here.

 

results

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; {63936A26-B21F-4F0E-9EEE-700050020F15}; yie6_SBC; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)





http://www.javascript:navigator.userAgent.com

 

Bob,

Post those results to your security thread please. I'm tired and will work on a reply for you tomorrow if no-one else has by then.

Goodnight.

 

security thread

How do you post to security thread ?

thank you

 

Dave,

Here you go: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

Hope that helps!

Mike

 

don't no what this all means

Here you go: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

Hope that helps!

 

Bob,

As I said, I wanted you to post those results to your HijackThis thread so it's available to me there. Your results show that there is a VX2 infection on your machine also, and we'll deal with that after doing some of the other cleanups. I also asked Mike to paste that command into his browser, and post the results here so that I could see if he had the same problem. As it turns out, his results are OK. No VX2 present, so his Quick Launch problem may be different than your's. Yet to be determined though.

 

Hi Dave...

You got bob to run the "javascript:navigator.userAgent" command...how does his results tell you that bob is infected with VX2?

His results were "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; {63936A26-B21F-4F0E-9EEE-700050020F15}; yie6_SBC; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) ". I'm assuming it's the bolded line that tells you.

My results are "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" and I can see the difference.

Just inquiring...need to add more ammo to my "nasties" fighting arsenal.

 

Hi Kent.

Yes, it's the CSLID, {63936A26-B21F-4F0E-9EEE-700050020F15}, that throws up the red flag. Google it. This, yie6_SBC, I believe is SBC yahoo (looks like a good educated guess huh? ). This, .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322, two different versions of Netscape.

Notice Mike's has some other strange looking entries? Googling the whole string will produce a link to here, a good place to check valid popular browsers.

 

Hi All,

I ran across a fix for me. I found the answer on the Microsoft newsgroup and it was posted by Kelly Theriot. Along with the taskbar fix, listed in another post below, there is a manual fix given. This worked for me.

Using Regedit, navagate to HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon. In the right pane, scroll down to Userinit and change the value to C:\Windows\System32\Userinit.exe.

I applied this change and rebooted twice and my quick launch stayed on the taskbar. Maybe the Kelly link provided before does the same thing, but I went the amnaul way to start.

Mike