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(Solved) - windows 7 64 bit lost taskbar, start menu and desktop icons
installer69:
For anyone who comes across this forum after suffering the same problem I had - consider yourself fortunate.
Shane put a lot of effort that I can never truly thank him enough for going through registry values that I had studied for hours until he spotted something using software I would never have come across - the addition of one character in a value.
Just to add further description in case it helps when trawled by google, explorer.exe was opening as a file explorer window instead of in desktop mode so no taskbar, desktop icons or start menu.
Shane, I wish I could do more but I've paypaled you a drink to say thanks
Boggin:
Nice one Shane !
Is there any way AdwCleaner could have caused that ?
Shane:
--- Quote from: installer69 on September 18, 2014, 01:52:27 pm ---For anyone who comes across this forum after suffering the same problem I had - consider yourself fortunate.
Shane put a lot of effort that I can never truly thank him enough for going through registry values that I had studied for hours until he spotted something using software I would never have come across - the addition of one character in a value.
Just to add further description in case it helps when trawled by google, explorer.exe was opening as a file explorer window instead of in desktop mode so no taskbar, desktop icons or start menu.
Shane, I wish I could do more but I've paypaled you a drink to say thanks
--- End quote ---
Happy to help. I am adding that registry value to WR as I type this :-)
You would have spotted it IF regedit would have shown that extra char with it. So since the shell vaule was reading to a file that wasnt there then explorer was only opening in file mode instead of desktop :-)
--- Quote ---Nice one Shane !
Is there any way AdwCleaner could have caused that ?
--- End quote ---
No way for me to tell. I found the problem but not what caused it. I found a windows api that tells me the last date and time modified of a registry key. I am going to be adding a tool to the WR that will use this, I wish I had it done as I could have looked to see when the last time the shell value was changed.
Also the reason I am adding this to the WR, when you run the reset registry permissions every key gets its last modified time updated, since the key is being modified. So in the add/remove programs some programs will shw as installed with that date. This is because when a program installs and makes the uninstall keys for the add/remove programs, if the key "InstalledDate" isnt there then add/remove programs will use the last modified date instead.
So I am going to make a tool that will loop through that before the repair and for any that doesnt have a key of "InstalledDate" or "InstalledOn" (cant remember which right now) then my program will make that key and put the date of the last modified in it. That way the date installed will always show properly in the add/remove after the repair :-D
Shane
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