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#40015 - 2003-05-12 02:31 PM Quick launch
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Hello everybody!

Ive had a butchers at google and your own forum, but couldn't seem to find a way to disable the annoying quick launch menu in windows. Can anybody point me in the right direction. Of course you can do this manually per machine but I am lazy and wonder if I can do this automatically.

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#40016 - 2003-05-12 02:38 PM Re: Quick launch
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it can't be annoying!
that is my start-menu!

not sure how to totally disable it but you can always make it point to an empty dir or delete the files from the dir it points to.
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#40017 - 2003-05-12 02:39 PM Re: Quick launch
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Please read Registry Tools in the FAQ Forum and track the registry changes before and after enabling/disabling the quicklaunch bar. Also, please search for 'quick launch' as this has already been discussed multiple times and solutions have been proposed in at least two separate threads.

[ 12. May 2003, 14:43: Message edited by: sealeopard ]
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#40018 - 2003-05-12 02:45 PM Re: Quick launch
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With regard to your duplicate post...
http://www.kixtart.org/board/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=007155

You can go back to it and delete it yourself.
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#40019 - 2003-05-12 02:50 PM Re: Quick launch
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Sealeopard,

You say search for 'quick launch' because It has already been discussed but yet I searched in all forums for 'quick launch' and it didnot come up with any results...

Lligetfa,

I have tried to delete topic myself but this says only a moderator is only allowed to do this.

Wintool.

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#40020 - 2003-05-12 02:52 PM Re: Quick launch
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Then why do I get 100+ hits when searching for 'quick launch' in 'All Open Forums' and 'Entire Message' and 'Any Date'?
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#40021 - 2003-05-12 02:52 PM Re: Quick launch
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Don't use the Delete Topic icon on the bottom of the screen as that one is only for moderators. Edit the post and choose delete there.
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#40022 - 2003-05-12 04:20 PM Re: Quick launch
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Sealeopard,

Tried search a further 2 times, using 'quick launch' first time 0 results. Second time success!

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#40023 - 2003-05-12 10:23 PM Re: Quick launch
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wonder did you forget to change the "search for forum" part...
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#40024 - 2003-05-13 12:17 AM Re: Quick launch
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Wintool,

I came up with 172 matches for that query. However, reviewing the major threads on this topic I DID NOT find anyone that provided a "scriptable" solution.

I'm sure it is probably controlled here:
Explorer\Streams\Desktop

You would need to use one of the many Registry monitoring tools and modify the settings and locate your required change. It would then probably require you to restart the computer or kill explorer and reload in order for the change to take affect.

Here is one of the bigger posts on the subject.
http://www.kixtart.org/board/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=005857

Here is a similar task that I took on last year. My guess is that the Quick Launch bar will need to be done in a similar fashion.
http://www.kixtart.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=14;t=000057

[ 13. May 2003, 00:34: Message edited by: NTDOC ]

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#40025 - 2003-05-13 07:30 AM Re: Quick launch
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Please have a look here
KiXtart FAQ & How to's

And specifically...
Registry Tools

The RegShot program should do the trick for you..

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#40026 - 2003-05-13 01:36 PM Re: Quick launch
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heh, think I should script this as no-one else is biting it...
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#40027 - 2003-05-13 03:10 PM Re: Quick launch
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Have used REGSHOT (thanks Kyder, incidently a Kyder is someone you cant take seriously in England!!) and it had returned the following, (I cant make head or tail but some values have clearly changed..)

code:
REGSHOT LOG 1.61e5
Comments:
Datetime:2003/5/13 21:11:19 , 2003/5/13 21:11:48
Computer:IT0FF1 , IT0FF1
Username: ,

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Values modified:1
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HKEY_USERS\administrator\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\Component Categories\{00021492-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\Enum\Implementing: 1C 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 D3 07 05 00 02 00 0D 00 15 00 07 00 34 00 8A 02 02 00 00 00 21 BF 5C 0E 5F D1 D0 11 83 01 00 AA 00 5B 43 83 81 45 E0 01 EE 4E D0 11 BF E9 00 AA 00 5B 43 83
HKEY_USERS\administrator\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\Component Categories\{00021492-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\Enum\Implementing: 1C 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 D3 07 05 00 02 00 0D 00 15 00 0B 00 1F 00 D6 01 02 00 00 00 21 BF 5C 0E 5F D1 D0 11 83 01 00 AA 00 5B 43 83 81 45 E0 01 EE 4E D0 11 BF E9 00 AA 00 5B 43 83

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Total changes:1
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Wintool.

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#40028 - 2003-05-13 03:28 PM Re: Quick launch
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12 fields... 6...3 numbers total...

now, you can try to manually set these logoff and logon and see does it change.
anyway, even though you get this nailed, it works best during logon, not while your explorer.exe is already running.

that's why I thought I would search for a commable way.
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