Re: media bar is missing from ie 6

From: Ramesh [MVP] (ramesh_at_nojunkmails.com@mvps.org)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:32:13 +0530

Hi geoguy,

<quote>
To help improve security, Media Bar has been removed from Internet Explorer
6. For this preliminary release of SP2, however, the Group Policy settings
for Media Bar have not been removed. Because Media Bar is no longer
available, these settings will not function.

Although you can no longer use Media Bar, you can listen to digital media by
downloading and using Microsoft Windows Media® Player 9 Series.

</quote>

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/relnsp2.mspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffdav/archive/0001/01/01/211492.aspx 

-- 
Ramesh, MS-MVP XP Shell/UI
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
"Jan Il" <abuse@localhost.com> wrote in message 
news:eWifeZZnEHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Hi geoguy :-)
> I recently had to reformat my system and the windows
> media bar is no longer an available item from the
> explorer bar menu. I have tried with WMP 9 and WMP 10
> installed. Ihave SP2 on my sysetem as well. Did microsoft
> discintinue the media bar for some reasons. also some of
> the media player links produce a blank url address bar.
Try the following to restore all default toolbars:
Restore Toolbars in Internet Explorer and/or Windows® Explorer
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/toolbar_restore.htm
*************************************************************
Restore Default Toolbars
Courtesy of Ramesh
Type this command in the RUN box, and press Enter:
Rundll32 Iedkcs32.dll,BrandCleanInstallStubs
The Windows Update menu text and it's corresponding URL is reset to factory
defaults.
or.........
Restore Toolbars in Internet Explorer and/or Windows® Explorer
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/toolbar_restore.htm
or...
Reset IE Toolbars
http://toolbar.google.com/fixmenu
also.......
You might try reinstalling the Media Player and see if that will
re-establish the relationship.
If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.
Hope this helps
Jan :)
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