Customize Button In Taskbar Grayed OUt

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Hi Laurie,

Is this a system on a domain or your personal one?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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"Laurice4" <Laurice4@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The "Customize..." Button in The Taskbar and Start Menu Dialog box is
> grayed
> out. How do I activate it please? laurice4@aol.com

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Rick, it's not on a domain. I don't know what you mean. It's on my computer
when I click start menu and taskbar.

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

> Hi Laurie,
>
> Is this a system on a domain or your personal one?
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Laurice4" <Laurice4@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:40937201-67C2-44C2-8A30-7A2014C5EE98@microsoft.com...
> > The "Customize..." Button in The Taskbar and Start Menu Dialog box is
> > grayed
> > out. How do I activate it please? laurice4@aol.com
>
>
>

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Laurice4,

Check for the two values parallelly under the HKLM hive as well.

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Ramesh, Windows XP MVP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


"Laurice4" <Laurice4@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Ramesh, I followed your instructions. But there are only two lines of type
> under the Policies - Explorer box in REGEDIT. They are:
> ab Default REG_SZ (value not set)
> No Drive Type Reg_Dword 0x00000091 (145)
>
> How do I activate the Customize button under these circumstances?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
>
>> "Hide inactive icons" is greyed out in Taskbar Properties:
>> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/traynotify.htm
>>
>> Ignore the title.
>>
>> --
>> Ramesh, Windows XP MVP
>> http://windowsxp.mvps.org
>>
>>
>> "Laurice4" <Laurice4@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:40937201-67C2-44C2-8A30-7A2014C5EE98@microsoft.com...
>> > The "Customize..." Button in The Taskbar and Start Menu Dialog box is
>> > grayed
>> > out. How do I activate it please? laurice4@aol.com
>>
>>

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Laurice4 wrote:

> Ramesh: I don't appear to have an HKLM archive, whatever that is. I even used
> search to try and find it and came up with nothing. In REGEDIT I don't appear
> to have anything indicating an HKLM. How do I activate my Customize taskbar
> button, please?
>
> "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
>
>
>>Laurice4,
>>
>>Check for the two values parallelly under the HKLM hive as well.
>>
>>--
>>Ramesh, Windows XP MVP
>>http://windowsxp.mvps.org
>>
>>
>>"Laurice4" <Laurice4@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>news:C4EE9BD5-B84E-4AE4-A697-F018FCCAB22D@microsoft.com...
>>
>>>Ramesh, I followed your instructions. But there are only two lines of type
>>>under the Policies - Explorer box in REGEDIT. They are:
>>>ab Default REG_SZ (value not set)
>>>No Drive Type Reg_Dword 0x00000091 (145)
>>>
>>>How do I activate the Customize button under these circumstances?
>>>
>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Hide inactive icons" is greyed out in Taskbar Properties:
>>>>http://windowsxp.mvps.org/traynotify.htm
>>>>
>>>>Ignore the title.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Ramesh, Windows XP MVP
>>>>http://windowsxp.mvps.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Laurice4" <Laurice4@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:40937201-67C2-44C2-8A30-7A2014C5EE98@microsoft.com...
>>>>
>>>>>The "Customize..." Button in The Taskbar and Start Menu Dialog box is
>>>>>grayed
>>>>>out. How do I activate it please? laurice4@aol.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>

HKLM is short HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the registry, seen when running regedit.

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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User