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re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons"
Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 12:54 am
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Posted by dimiterb2000 (9 messages posted)


It was "Not configured" per se/ all of them are/, and "Disabled" also dodn't work. Disaster!


On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 11:35 pm, CS wrote:
>Had a bit of a time figuring how to post here, but I made it.
>
>Go to:
>Start > Run > type in "gpedit.msc" > OK.
>In the tree pane on the left, navigate to and select:
>"Local Computer Policy\User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows
>Explorer".
>
>In the right pane, locate the line that says:
>1. "Remove Windows Explorer default context menu" and double click on it.
>2. Is the "Not configured" button chosen? If it is NOT chosen, choose it and click
>"OK".
>3. Don't close the Group Policy editor yet, but check to see if your right click
>has been restored on the desktop.
>4. If the "Not configured" button WAS chosen or the above did not work, try choosing
>"DISABLED" and click "OK".
>
>If the Group Policy editor does not work, it will require a reg hack, and I am not
>sure it is the same in Windows 2000 as it is on XP, so I will stop here.
>
>Good luck.


Written in response to:
re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (CS: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at 11:35 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (CS: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at 8:29 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (dimiterb2000: Mon, Dec 26, 2005, 11:59 pm)
-re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (DEX: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 7:17 am)
-re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (dimiterb2000: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 7:56 am)
-re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (DEX: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 9:13 am)
-re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (dimiterb2000: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 9:32 am)
-re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (DEX: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 10:32 am)
-re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (dimiterb2000: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 11:06 pm)
-re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (CS: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 11:35 pm)
-re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (dimiterb2000: Wed, Dec 28, 2005, 12:54 am)
*re: Undoing "Hide all desktop icons" (CS: Wed, Dec 28, 2005, 8:29 am)
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