By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:43:46 +0000

Believe I previously commented to you on your ‘how to disable active desktop’ article and even though your article isn’t for Vista’s Home premium, I’d once considered some aspects of your article might lead me to a fix for my issue (an irregularly flash-flickering ghost like ‘white’ start button that persistently and yet seemingly randomly appears just above my auto-hidden taskbar’s actual start button). I thought I’d fixed it by fiddling with the taskbar’s properties and allowing my audio utility (Controls IDT Audio Setting) to ‘always show’ it’s ‘notification’ icon in the systems tray. But I’d forgotten that’s what stopped the appearances of the ghost like flickering white start button and as soon as I tried ‘always hide’ it, the darned start button issue returned. Anyway, I’m pretty sure I wrote you months ago asking about your article (in that it’s first registry key you mention, seems like you omitted something, ie; like the instructions for what to do when we drill down to that first mentioned key (assumedly readers either are either supposed to delete your pictured entry or add it, but your article doesn’t say anything about that first entry ke (other than ‘find it’ and then your article goes on about finding the second registry key. As for my current vista sp1′s registry and your first mentioned key, my registry only has three ‘named’ entries there (ie; “(Default)”, “Disable Thumbnails” and “RestrictWelcomeCenter”) and not surprisingly I have no such second key as your article refers to, plus a registry search fails to hit on any registry entries titled “NoActiveDesktop”. Again no surprise there as your article I believe does mention Vista got rid of the active desktop. Anyway, I’ll keep plugging away at my annoying start issue.

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By: Steve