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Digerati:
I just ran WR-AIO on this system (W7 64-bit, i7) and have run into a problem with pinned items. It seems none work after running WR-AIO. None on my taskbar and none in the start menu. Normal shortcuts work - just not pinned items.
I take that back, Windows Update pinned to my Start menu works, the other items (to things installed on my D drive) have a blank default icon and when I click on them, an error reports the item I selected is unavailable, and may have been moved, deleted, etc.
Note I install Windows and hardware drivers ONLY on my boot disk. C drive. Everything else goes on another drive. I fear WR AIO resetting everything back to out-the-box defaults may not account for users having more than one drive. And the fact Windows Update, being my sole surviving pinned item, and the only pinned item that goes to C (my boot) drive seems to support that.
If the idea is to reset the Start Menu and the Taskbar by purging them of pinned items, then that didn't work either. The pinned items should have been completely removed, not replaced with Windows default icons that point to nothing.
Shane:
Thats an odd error. I have seen it on any of the systems I have ran my tool on. But at the same time everything is on the C: drive.
So now lets see if we can find out what is changing, where it is changing and from which repair and then I can update the program to handle it. :wink:
Taking a look at this
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/214711-taskbar-pinned-items-reset-clear-windows-7-a.html
--- Quote ---DEL /F /S /Q /A "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\*"
REG DELETE HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband /F
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
--- End quote ---
I can see the pinned items are stored in %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\
And in the reg here HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband
The reset file permissions skips the users profile so I know it isnt that repair. And no other repair touches that folder location that I know of. As for the reg key location the only repair that touches it is the reset reg permissions.
So here is what I need you to do. Next time it happens, if you dont mind doing it again go to
%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar\
And check the files there and see if you can see where they are pointing to.
And perhaps here as well HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband
Take a look at both sections before you do the repairs again and then again after and lets see if we can find anything that is different :wink:
Shane
Digerati:
Not sure what to tell you either. But those locations you talk about appear to be for the taskbar only and they currently look good (now that I have repaired them all - more on that in a sec). Those locations don't set the Start menu pinned tasks, however.
As for repairing the pinned items, that was odd too. For Word, for example, I had to go to the main "target" location, right click on Word where my only option was to unpin from Start Menu. This happened even if I deleted the blank icon. Once I unpinned, I could immediately pin again and all was good, and is still good after a reboot.
I also noticed CoreTemp system tray icon went away. I thought at first the program was no longer running but got yelled at for trying to start it again. I then realized it was running, but the default text color (black) came back and I just could not see it with my very dark blue taskbar background. I had changed it to white. I've been running CoreTemp for 3 years with no problems like that.
I wish some of the fixes were not set by default. For example, restoring the default Hosts file and restoring the default services settings. And I wish it reported its findings before actually fixing anything. And a log to go back and see what happened would be good too.
I think it is important to test these apps on all sorts of configurations. I know a lot of computer users that don't let Windows install everything on c. I don't know if that is the issue, and I know it is impossible to test anything close to all possible configurations, but multiple drives (and multiple monitors too) are pretty common.
If it happens again, I will let you know.
Shane:
Thats what is truly odd. They are simply shortcuts in that folder.
Here is an example. On my machine (Windows 7) I go to C:\Users\Shane\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu
There I can see the shortcuts and the items that are pinned in my start menu. Now I simply add some other shortcuts. They dont show up, reboot, still not there. If I try to go to that shortcut on the desktop and tell it to pin it will show up now with a (2) on it. because the other shortcut is already there.
Removing them doesnt get rid of them from the start menu either. I have to go to each one and unpin it. But if I was to remove the shortcut and then try to click on it in the start menu it will come up and say it cant find it and ask to remove it.
This is the normal behavior in Windows. So this means that the data for the start menu and task bar are in the registry somewhere of what is suppose to be there and where they are stored. The start menu and task bar dont simply just show what ever is in the folders.
So here is the reg are that it is stored. You will see that the hex does point to the folder location.
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/backup-pinned-start-menu-shortcuts-windows-7-vista-xp/
So next time it happens check both the shortcut properties of the shortcuts in the pinned folder and see if the reg key has changed or is pointing to a different location.
Your the first one to ever report this problem and out of the hundreds of machines I have ran it on I have never seen it. So I am really curious to what is going on :-)
Shane
Digerati:
Well, it is not the first time I am the only one. I am certainly not going to say my machine is typical, but it is not an uncommon setup either. At any rate, we'll keep an eye out for future problems.
Thanks.
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