Thanks, but none of those situations apply to W2k. There is not even anything close to them. The administrator, "all users" and "Jerry" all have a DeskTop subdirectory. Mine contains the things setting on my desktop. But, I still can drag and drop them from the desktop to the taskbar. When I try a big black circle with a slash through it appears. There has to be a registry setting someone, but I've searched for "quick", "launch", "Quick Launch", etc., and all I find are references to QuickTime.
JLK


>>My W2K installation use to allow dragging a desktop icon down to the taskbar,
>>where it could be accessed without minimizing open apps.
>>Also, the desktop icon on the taskbar is missing.
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>>Anyone know how to restore them?
>>TIA,
>>JLK
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>The computer I'm currently on is NT4, not W2K, but here the directory that "contains" this taskbar info is:
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C:\WINNT\Profiles\<i>UserName</i>\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

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>I remember that the equivalent of the Profile directory is no longer under the Windows directory in W2K.
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>As for the desktop icon, I checked mine and it is a file called Bureau since I have a French Canadian WinNT, so I assume in English it would be Desktop (no extention). The content of this file is:
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>[Shell]
>Command=2
>IconFile=explorer.exe,3
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>[Taskbar]
>Command=ToggleDesktop
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>HTH!