HELP!! Quick Launch Problem!!

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ch@rm

My Quick Launch suddenly disappeared & when I tried to
get it back it gave the error "Cannot create toolbar"

Please advice

Thanks in advance
 
Click Start, Run and type:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Do you have access to this folder?

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
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Tried that... It did not work...
Gives the message that the Quick Luanch Folder already
exists and cannot be recreated...
The problem I initally had is not solved
-----Original Message-----
Error Creating Toolbar:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_toolbar_error.
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I have the same problem too. I started with the Knowledge Base fix for "Cannot create toolbar for", and quickly determined it did not refer to XP. I tried to find the quick launch folder with the "Search" function of the Start menu, but it did not find it. I have found references to where it is supposed to be in XP (C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer), but found no "Application Data" folder in my [YourUserName] folder. I then plugged Ramesh's info (%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch)
into the "Run" box, and I found Quick Launch! (I had gone to the fix-it URL, but when I downloaded and tried it, it told me that I HAD Quick Launch.) Now here's the truly weird thing: When I back upwards out of the Application Data folder, I get to the [YourUserName] folder. . .but it lists no Application Data folder! In other words, the only way to GET to the Application Data folder, or its Quick Launch sub-folder (and, presumably, into any other sub-folder within Application Data) is through a "Run" command like Ramesh's! I am stumped for what to do next.
 
App data is a hidden folder, BTW. Robert, can you send me the HijackThis log via email?

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

AumHa VSOP: http://www.aumha.org

I have the same problem too. I started with the Knowledge Base fix for "Cannot create toolbar for", and quickly determined it did not refer to XP. I tried to find the quick launch folder with the "Search" function of the Start menu, but it did not find it. I have found references to where it is supposed to be in XP (C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer), but found no "Application Data" folder in my [YourUserName] folder. I then plugged Ramesh's info (%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch)
into the "Run" box, and I found Quick Launch! (I had gone to the fix-it URL, but when I downloaded and tried it, it told me that I HAD Quick Launch.) Now here's the truly weird thing: When I back upwards out of the Application Data folder, I get to the [YourUserName] folder. . .but it lists no Application Data folder! In other words, the only way to GET to the Application Data folder, or its Quick Launch sub-folder (and, presumably, into any other sub-folder within Application Data) is through a "Run" command like Ramesh's! I am stumped for what to do next.
 
While I have downloaded Hijack This, everything I read suggests to me that it may require a greater skill level than I possess. if I understand aright, if you use it you can end up throwing out baby with bathwater unless you are sufficiently adept to be sure you can tell the difference. I am not so adept. Also, I have seen posts from others who are suffering from this same problem to the effect that they ran Hijack This and got nowhere with the underlying problem. But if you assure me that I can run Hijack This and create a log without having to actually DO anything with those results, and that this log could be helpful to your diagnosing the problem, well, then, i suppose I could try that.
Oh, incidentally, I have "un-hidden" my AppData folder and can now get to it normally. The Quick Launch folder exists and is full of the good old shortcuts I used to know so well.

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Robert


Ramesh said:
App data is a hidden folder, BTW. Robert, can you send me the HijackThis log via email?

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

AumHa VSOP: http://www.aumha.org

I have the same problem too. I started with the Knowledge Base fix for "Cannot create toolbar for", and quickly determined it did not refer to XP. I tried to find the quick launch folder with the "Search" function of the Start menu, but it did not find it. I have found references to where it is supposed to be in XP (C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer), but found no "Application Data" folder in my [YourUserName] folder. I then plugged Ramesh's info (%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch)
into the "Run" box, and I found Quick Launch! (I had gone to the fix-it URL, but when I downloaded and tried it, it told me that I HAD Quick Launch.) Now here's the truly weird thing: When I back upwards out of the Application Data folder, I get to the [YourUserName] folder. . .but it lists no Application Data folder! In other words, the only way to GET to the Application Data folder, or its Quick Launch sub-folder (and, presumably, into any other sub-folder within Application Data) is through a "Run" command like Ramesh's! I am stumped for what to do next.
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Robert


Frankie said:
i have the same problem...and yes i do have access to the folder using
that RUN command
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