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I'm trying to find where the Windows XP taskbars are defined. I don't think it is in the registry as I've:

  • created a new folder called "_ZYX_Searchable" and added a new toolbar.

  • searched the registry for this string and found no results.

  • I've also searched the entire "c:" drive in case it has created a ".lnk" file somewhere but not found anything.

Can any one point me in the right direction?
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Maybe this link will give some insight

http://www.realgeek.com/forums/toolbar-registry-entries-220100.html

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interesting reading. THank you – G-. Jul 28 '10 at 8:45
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Windows XP (at least) appears to store the position and link information for the taskbar icons and toolbars in the following key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop] "TaskbarWinXP"

It's encoded as REG_BINARY so appears as a string of hex in a registry editor.

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Ah! This looks like it might be what I was looking for. THank you for trawling the ancient questions :-) Now, I just need to remeber why I wanted this info in the first place :-) – G-. Jul 28 '10 at 8:41
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I'm not sure about WinXP, but Win7 creates them in:

C:\Users\(userName)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\(toolbarName)

so maybe this will help

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"C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer" does contain the quick launch folder but ONLY the quick launch folder. This does not contain other folders or links to them. – G-. Mar 29 '10 at 14:00
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It might be helpful if you could explain what you're trying to accomplish. If you created a new taskbar toolbar, you would find its contents in the folder you specified when you created the toolbar. Some toolbars exist only as objects in the registry.

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Thank you for your response, but what I am trying to acertain is where in the registry this data is stored. The purpose of this question (if I remember rightly) was to be able to back up these settings and transfer them to a new machine or profile on the same machine. G – G-. Jul 28 '10 at 8:44
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