Explorer problems

[david]

Am having problems with windows explorer, internet
explorer, outlook express and control panel. The gray
menu bar containing file, view, favourites ect. covers
most of the display vertically. The other toolbars below
this are normal height. But the output window is very
small, about 5-10 pixels. Is there a registry entry
controlling the height of the top menu bar.
Many thanks in advanced.

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Hi David,

Right-click Desktop, Properties, Appearance, Advanced
Select "Icon" and set it to 19 (or even lower value)

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"david" <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:289a801c46461$aa19cf40$a401...@phx.gbl...

[anon...@discussions.microsoft.com]

Tried that. It only changed the size of the icons on the
desktop. I need to set the height of the menu bar in the
explorer apps.

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[Ramesh [MVP]]

Apologies. Change the size for the item "Menu"

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[anon...@discussions.microsoft.com]

tried that, but to no avail. Do you know the registry
entry for this value?

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[Ramesh [MVP]]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop\WindowMetrics]
"MenuHeight"

But, it should change via UI itself. What theme you're using? Have you tried switching to WindowsClassic and them back to XP Theme?

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[anon...@discussions.microsoft.com]

Looked at the registry. Values do change, but explorer
etc. do not change appearance. Values in registry seem to
be multiplied by -15, so should see a value for
menuheight at more than 11250.
Changed themes but not difference.
Would it help to reinstall something??

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[Ramesh [MVP]]

A screenshot might help. If possible send to my email id

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[David Candy]

A dash here means twips. There are 20 twips to the point and 72 points to an inch (and I live in a metric country and know this). So 1 twip is 1/1440th of an inch. But this is a screen inch. If your resolution is 960 pixels (bear with me - it makes the maths easy) horonzontal and the DPI is 96 then it is 10 inches (254 mm) horonzontal. That is 10" on a 14" monitor and 10" on a 21" monitor.

In specifing icons a dash means it is the resource number while a positive number is the nth icon.
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[anon...@discussions.microsoft.com]

Have sent screenshot and got error, please confirm exact
email address to send to please.

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[Ramesh [MVP]]

Send to ramesh @ mvps.org

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[Ramesh [MVP]]

Rec'd that. Start with this fix: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/XP_ToolbarFix.zip and let us know.

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[Ramesh [MVP]]

Try to register Browseui.dll (regsvr32 browseui.dll) and do you get any errors such as (mussing browselc.dll or something)?

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[anon...@discussions.microsoft.com]

Hi
Tried xpToolbarfix.zip, did not work.
found browseui.dll size=1002Kb
found browselc.dll size=62Kb
found regsvr.dll size=10Kb

How do you register a .dll or register one

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[Ramesh [MVP]]

The DLL can be registered by typing regsvr32 <dll name>

regsvr32 /i browseui.dll (from Start, Run dialog)

Can you delete the browselc.dll and extract it again from XP CD?

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[anon...@discussions.microsoft.com]

registered browseui.dll, reports it succeeded.
could not find browselc.dll on XP cd is there a possible
download site for this file?
Is it worth replacing other dll files?

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[Ramesh [MVP]]

Apart from running SFC /Scannow with the XP CD in, I have no further ideas. Would be interested to hear from the boss DavidC. System Restore might help if the problem is recently seen, but the cause cannot be determined.

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[David Candy]

I thought it may have been set on the side (I don't see any reason it can't end up there in error). I tried office where menus can be dragged. It became vertical (hard to read). But Office doesn't use real menus (they are custom toolbars that look like menus) so windows menus mightn't work the same.

Is Doug's the same as Kelly's. Has you nuked the browser toolbar reg key?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser

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[Ramesh [MVP]]

Doug's fix also deletes ITBarLayout under the WebBrowser key. As you said (in private), backing up and deleting the "Toolbar" key itself might help. Interesting problem though!

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[anon...@discussions.microsoft.com]

I was wondering if you know which dll file contains the
information about the explorer bar layout

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