Two Windows-2003 post-upgrade questions

From: Rob (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/30/04


Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:41:13 -0800

I have two simpler post-Windows 2003 upgrade questions.

1) The address bar of Explorer (not Internet Explorer) is non-existent. This had happened to me with Windows 2000 server. I hoped it would get "fixed" with the upgrade, but somewhere the registry is still preventing the address bar from showing up. It was disabled in some unknown way a while back. There are no menu items to restore it. Does anyone know the magic registry item to show it again?

2) I've been using Windows since v2 days as a developer so I prefer to use Program Manager (progman.exe) to execute my main program links (my START menu takes an hour to scroll through). With Windows 2003, starting progman.exe automatically shows Explorer instead. However, if I run progman.exe from within Widows 2003, but from my Windows 2000 backup OS partition, then everything is ok and functions well. My question is: what file in the system32 directory do I need to copy over or change to make progman.exe work within Windows 2003? I upgraded in-place from 2000 to 2003 so it seems to me to be related to a file on disk and not the contents of the registry.

Thanks for any info.