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Persistent invalid toolbar shortcut

Asked by chanx in Windows 95 Operating System

I have Win95 OSR/2 with MSIE 4.01SR1 and a custom desktop installed. I used to be networked to a workgroup (called "MIS") but no longer am. I had made a taskbar "toolbar shortcut." Now I can't get rid of it.

Oh, I can close it, mind you, but when I reboot it comes back.

I have tried lots of heavy-duty tricks, including painstakingly searching the registry (found nothing interesting); creating a new toolbar shortcut and comparing registry entries (I don't think it's in there!); using a drive synchronization program (FileSync 2.01, which I highly recommend -- see www.winfiles.com) and comparing my Windows, Office, MSIE, and, finally, entire 4-partition system before and after creating a new shortcut; etc., etc. I simply cannot find where Windows stores this information! Worse, I consider myself a 99th-percentile Win95 expert. Maybe I'm just missing something stupid?

Finally, I know by analogy to drive sharing that if a linked resource is removed, W95 can have problems getting rid of references to it. With shared (nonexistent) drives, my solution is always to temporarily share another drive using the same share-name, then unshare it. The recalcitrant share goes away. Well, I tried this, too, creating a new toolbar shortcut names "MIS"; but it doesn't persist through a reboot, and the old, bogus one still keeps coming back! Help!

This question is worth more than 60 points to me, but that's all I have left today. :-)

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Persistent invalid toolbar shortcut

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