QuickLaunch size won't stick

[Halfwalker]

Well this is strange. I'm using the typical and discussed-to-bloody-DEATH quicklaunch setup methods, using a registry entry at cmdlines.txt ...

Works fine. But now I've decided to change the taskbar from a normal one-line to a double-line size. So ...

1. Unlock taskbar

2. Drag eddge to make it double size

3. Lock taskbar

4. Logoff

5. Log back in ...

and ....

**** taskbar is back to single-line size. I can't get it to stay double-sized. Note - all this testing is in a VMWare 5.5 VM. The main system this is running on works just fine. I can change the taskbar size, logoff/shutdown, and it's the same when I log back in. As expected.

I test it on a real test machine. Same **** thing. Taskbar won't stay double-sized. So it's not a VMWare artifact - must be something in the tweak I'm doing ... Here's my RunOnceEx.cmd ...

CMDOW @ /HID
@Echo Off

FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\win51ip.SP2 SET CDROM=%%i:
SET PP=%cdrom%\Apps\
SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

REGEDIT /S %cdrom%\$OEM$\quicklaunch.reg
md "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Security"
 :
 :

quicklauch.reg itself contains this : I know that first key isn't right - the number is random each time. I'm guessing to remove the number portion, just make it HKU\Software\....

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1085031214-963894560-725345543-500\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components\0]
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop]
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"Toolbars"=hex:11,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"Upgrade"=dword:00000001

But WTF ? No more double-size taskbar ??

D.

[Halfwalker]

Wow

No-one else has seen this behaviour ? No-one else has a suggestion ? I'm at a loss here.

D.

[Halfwalker]

A little more information ...

I set the Taskbar bar to be double-high. I log off. I log back on ... I can see the Taskbar outline start off as double-high, but then it flips back down to single-line.

So it looks like something is forcing it back down to single line ...

Very annoying. Help ?

D.

[Zxian]

Moved to Unattended forum.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

I'm sure Felix on this board has a fix for this some time back. I don't use it myself. But I'm sure a search will find this.