Quick Launch problem

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Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can someone
tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)? I have over
140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I could restore
just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler. Thanks.......
 
One Hundred and Forty QuickLaunch icons ? -

They are stored at:

\Documents & Settings\'LoginName'\Application Data\
Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
 
-Nisko- said:
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them).
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Do you mean that the quicklaunch toolbard goes missing
or that its still there and there are no icons on it anymore ?
Can someone tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)?
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Search on Quick Launch.
They're normally in
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick
Launch
I have over 140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I could restore
just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler.
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If they are going missing from that folder, you
have a serious problem that needs to be fixed.
 
-Nisko- said:
Frequently enough, I lose my QuickLaunch icons (all of them). Can someone
tell me where the setting is to restore them (from a backup)? I have over
140 icons and reconstructing them is a royal nuisance. If I could restore
just that part from a backup, life would be a lot simpler. Thanks.......
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Get a second(larger)harddisk and make a ghostimage
with Gost2003 on that(compressed).
My last one: c:(8.5GB) to 4.3GB backup.
When in trouble:restore disk.
when nice and stable: backup disk.
I can keep several backup this way, and kill
some of the older ones on occasion.
 
R. McCarty's is the straightforward/easy solution.
Get a second(larger)harddisk and make a ghostimage
with Gost2003 on that(compressed).
My last one: c:(8.5GB) to 4.3GB backup.
When in trouble:restore disk.
when nice and stable: backup disk.
I can keep several backup this way, and kill
some of the older ones on occasion.
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That is much more involved than necessary, but I find that
especially useful for doing incremental Windows installations.
Currently I use Partition Manager 2005. You just make a copy(s) of
the Windows partition. It's a Windows program that does the work on
a reboot. I keep PartitionMagic around as a backup disk manager in
case Partition Manager doesn't do a particular task.
 
Rod Speed said:
Do you mean that the quicklaunch toolbard goes missing
or that its still there and there are no icons on it anymore ?
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This time, the toolbars are missing.
 
I had 8 or 9 sections with QuickLaunch icons in them. These are also gone.
If I restore (as you've described below), will those sections re-appear?
Each section has a certain type of QuickLaunch icons in them, i.e. Backup,
Graphics, Disk Utilities, etc.
 
-Nisko- said:
I had 8 or 9 sections with QuickLaunch icons in them. These are also gone.
If I restore (as you've described below), will those sections re-appear?
Each section has a certain type of QuickLaunch icons in them, i.e. Backup,
Graphics, Disk Utilities, etc.
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Yes as long as you don't go back to BEFORE you created the different layers
of icons.
In windows 9x we used to delete the shelliconcache file and reboot to
rebuild the icons when corrupt.


The following maybe helpful.


Corrupted Icons

If the icons on your desktop are corrupted, you can reset them.

Search your system for a file called "IconCache.db". It will be hidden, so
you will need to view hidden files to find it. The usual location is
Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data.
Once you have found it, delete it and reboot.
If the system will not let you delete it, reboot in to safe mode and do it
from there and then reboot again.
When you login again, your icons should be recreated correctly.

This is similar to a trick performed on older operating systems where you
delete a file called shelliconcache.

You can also do it with the TweakUI for Windows XP Powertoy, using the
repair icons function.
 
-Nisko- said:
I have Partition Commander. Plz explain how you use it for this
purpose.
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I don't know about Partition Commander.

To make incremental copies of your Windows installation with
Partition Manager 2005.

.... install it

.... make your Windows XP partition smaller than half of the
available space

.... copy it to the free space

.... make sure the copy is hidden after the reboot... right-click on
the target partition and select "unhide" then right-click on the
same target partition and select "hide"... that sounds redundant,
but if I don't do that, after the reboot the copy is incorrectly
visible to Windows

Note: I always change the Partition Manager setting so that copied
partitions are supposedly hidden. But maybe the program gets
confused that way. Maybe leaving that setting alone so that it does
not hide the copied partition will allow you to just right-click and
select "hide" after you make/plan/setup the copy. In any case, I
have to change that attribute at least once in order for the copied
partition to be set to hidden during the reboot process.

.... once you have a solid backup copy of Windows, you can shrink
that partition and move it to the right on the disk so your current
Windows can be enlarged
Thanks....
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You're welcome. Please post in context next time, in other words
post below the text you are replying to, like I'm doing.

Good luck.
 
Next time I'll try this - but, if I understand correctly, this is for the
Desktop, not the Quick Launch.
 
John Doe said:
I don't know about Partition Commander.

To make incremental copies of your Windows installation with
Partition Manager 2005.

... install it

... make your Windows XP partition smaller than half of the
available space

... copy it to the free space

... make sure the copy is hidden after the reboot... right-click on
the target partition and select "unhide" then right-click on the
same target partition and select "hide"... that sounds redundant,
but if I don't do that, after the reboot the copy is incorrectly
visible to Windows

Note: I always change the Partition Manager setting so that copied
partitions are supposedly hidden. But maybe the program gets
confused that way. Maybe leaving that setting alone so that it does
not hide the copied partition will allow you to just right-click and
select "hide" after you make/plan/setup the copy. In any case, I
have to change that attribute at least once in order for the copied
partition to be set to hidden during the reboot process.

... once you have a solid backup copy of Windows, you can shrink
that partition and move it to the right on the disk so your current
Windows can be enlarged


You're welcome. Please post in context next time, in other words
post below the text you are replying to, like I'm doing.

Good luck.
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Thank you - but I'm not feeling well. When I'm better, I'll re-read this
post (because, right now, I'm not following it).
 
Someone, about a month ... month and a half ago ... requested the same
information. Received A LOT OF POSTS to solve this problem.

Is this the same Nisko?

I personally posted 4 recommendations ... and heard nothing back ... nor did
anyone else. ABout 20 people were involved.

If not, check the archive ... there are many recommendations.

And why is this being posted to 3 newsgroups?
 
Sorry if it seems like I posted twice. I do try to show the proper
etiquette when posting. I have a problem with pain in my neck and head -
and it severely affects my memory. There are few moments when I feel well
enough to get on the PC - but it is the only "hobby" I am capable of
enjoying due to my illness. In any case, I will look up my previous post -
but, even if it sounded like the same problem, it isn't. Earlier, I was
trying to find a way to replace my Quick Launch icons in the order I wanted
them (rather than alphabetically) - when I lost them on a reboot. Since
that would mean prefixing each of the icon shortcuts with a numeral, I
thought it would be a pain because I often try new software and, each time I
placed a new icon in the Quick Launch area, it would mean renumbering the
existing icons. As I've said previously, I have more than 140 icons in the
Quick Launce area (I know that's a lot, but I like them there - it's one of
the ways I personalize my PC).

So, to help with my problem, I learned how to create more Toolbars in the
Quick Launch area in order to categorize my icons, i.e. one toolbar for
graphics, one toolbar for utilities, etc.). That way, if they got mixed up,
at least there would be far fewer in each toolbar to straighten out. NOTE:
The only problem I found is that you are limited as to how many toolbars you
can have in the Quick Launce area - even using small icons. Unfortunately,
the other day, it happened again - I not only lost all my icons in the Quick
Launch area, I also lost the divisions between toolbars. I tried a Restore
to when I knew the toolbars and icons were there - but, to my surprise, the
Restore didn't replace my icons OR toolbars. Hence, the second post.

Bottom Line: I apologize for seeming to post twice for the same issue. As
for the Thank You's, I also apologize - my neck pain must have interferred
with my memory because, if you've seen any of my other posts, you'll find
that I always that you folks that try to help others - my hat is off to
you!!! As for posting in three groups, I have found that most people read
either of the three groups - but not all three. Therefore, I am more likely
to more (good) replies if I post in all three. I don't always do that -
but, if I believe the question I'm asking is likely to get more responses
from more than one group, I will post in all of them. After all, there is a
lot of overlap in those three computer groups and a lot of expertise between
them.

Now, back to my problem: Since I don't know why I sometimes lose my Quick
Launce icons, and I like them all organized the way I like them on the
Desktop, I still am looking for a way to accomplish this - and, if they
disappear, I'm looking for an easy way to restore them in the order I like.
To this end, I don't yet have a solution. Also, while I'm at it, I think I
am limited to nine toolbars in the Quick Launch area (all vertical
separations from the bottom of the screen to the top of the popup tool
area). It would be helpful if I could have stacked toolbars in that area
since some of the categories I use only have a few icons in them (and some
have many). Perhaps there is another way around this - and still keep my
desktop neat.

Thanks again............
 
Please take this rather unique problem to
alt.microsoft.windows.xp.toolbar_management.obsessive.compulsive

I'm sure that you'll find others who are suffering from a similar
malady as yours who will be able to help you.
 
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