Try right clicking on the task bar, go to toolbars and make sure that quicklaunch is checked. That needs to be turned on to see the quicklaunch bar. Also you can turn on the desktop toolbar and see all your desktop icons on your taskbar.

>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
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>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!