RE: Taskbar and start menu properties box (not responding) in WinXPHom

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Try Kelly's fix:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 164. Restore Taskbar to Default Functionality

Double click the vbs file. You will be prompted when the script is done.

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Rey


"Peter K" wrote:

Recently I went in to customise a taskbar item in the "Task bar and start
menu properties", clicked OK then Apply and clicked OK again, the box just
froze. Had to click on the X to close box, another box comes up titled
"Explorer.exe" and the comment was "This program is not responding".
Clicked on OK to close this box. I thought this was a one off but tried
several times and same things happens, ie the task bar menu box will not
close off if I click on OK, but if I click cancel first the task bar menu box
will close. This means that I can no longer make any changes in my task bar.

I have Win XP Home SP2 with all the critical and non critical updates.
Computer is self built and 7 months old. Have not installed any new programs
for several months. Holding off on System Restore as I would like to know
why this is happening. Any suggestions please??


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Peter K
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