address bar in task bar is gone

External Since: Jul 24, 2008 Posts: 1

Hi... you can use this link to download WDS (Windows Desktop Search) as a
replacement for address toolbar.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/choo...windows
Greetings.

"PKHarmon" wrote:

> I wish I had found this information hours ago. But isn't that almost always
> the case? Before I follow these instructions, however, I'd like to see if I
> can get back a feature that I liked even better than having the address bar
> in the task bar.
>
> At one time, I had Live Search in place of address bar in my task bar. I
> believe it may have been part of the Beta version of Live Search. And it was
> great...until I upgraded to IE 7.0. Then I lost it.
>
> Address bar was a big step down from Live Search but still far better than
> the 'nothing' that I have there now.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> PKHarmon
>
> "ju.c" wrote:
>
> > Replace "C:\WINDOWS\System32\browserui.dll" with a version from SP2.
> >
> >
> > ju.c
> >
> >
> > "David R. Woodsided" <dwoodside.TakeThisOut@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message news:u#hdVJTuIHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > > I am running XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP 3. I believe this happenned
> > > when I installed the SP 3 download for Windows. The address bar disappeared
> > > at the bottom of my screen in the Windows Taskbar where the Quick Launch
> > > items are. The option to put it in by right-clicking in the task bar does
> > > not have the Address Toolbar as an option any more. Is that a result of the
> > > lawsuit or something? Is there any way to get it back?
> > > Any help would be appreciated

Joined: Jul 30, 2008 Posts: 1

This worked great for me...

http://www.niversoft.com/downloads/xp-sp3-addressbar.zip

Quote from author at https://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg...crosoft

"I simply wrote an explorer shell extension which normally would be dockable in the explorer taskbar. But the extension I wrote does nothing by itself, it just calls the address bar available in (the NEW) browseui.dll and "hosts" it.

Microsoft didn't remove the address bar component from SP3. They just slightly crippled it to prevent it to be docked in the task bar. But nothing prevents another component hosting it to be docked in the taskbar."