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re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue'
Friday, October 24, 2003 at 10:26 am
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Posted by Angel (1 messages posted)

Beautiful! I tried what you said J.it worked...Thanks!

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 6:30 pm, j frangquist wrote:

>You can only do it by going into the registry and blowing away all the hide/show 
>data.
>
>Start Menu, Run, type: regedit
>
>navigate to:
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify
>
>delete the IconStreams and PastIconStreams binaries on the right hand side
>
>Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL > Processes tab > select explorer.exe and click End Process
>To get your desktop back, choose New Task and type: explorer
>
>Go back to taskbar properties and redo your customization. 
>
>






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re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (jagged ben: Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 6:30 pm)


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re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Aja Gupta: Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at 2:47 am)

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Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (alan: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 12:06 pm)

re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Adam the Wiseguy: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 12:21 pm)

re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (jagged ben: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 6:29 pm)

re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (jagged ben: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 6:30 pm)

re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Angel: Fri, Oct 24, 2003, 10:26 am)

re: Question about 'Get rid of Shortcut Residue' (Aja Gupta: Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 2:47 am)

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