How to recover the address bar in taskbar in Windows XP SP3?

External Since: Mar 22, 2006 Posts: 55

I used the address bar for A LOT for a lot of different reasons so thank you
for the workaround, it work perfectly so far.

I dont get why a feature of a browser offered by the same company who made
the OS is an antitrust issue when anyone can easily disable it if they wished.

Why it was there for more than 7 years before it was told to be taken out?
AFTER Vista came out?! JUST before XP loses support??!!

lets all thank Europe for its backwards legal system.

--
Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

"niver" wrote:

>
> Not sure I 100% understand what you mean...
>
> In my installation of SP3 (not beta), I can replace the new
> browseui.dll by the new one, but I wanted to avoid doing that.
>
> 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.
>
> N.
>
> Colin Barnhorst;645668 Wrote:
> > I see. Nevertheless, the method of copying over browseui.dll which was
> >
> > being used by SP3 beta testers was eventually blocked in a late build
> > of
> > SP3. You didn't say that your's was a third-party method.
> >
> > "niver" <niver.38uaai.TakeThisOut@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
> > news:niver.38uaai@no.email.invalid...
> > >
> > > We wrote a minimalist shell toolbar which 'hosts' the pre-sp3
> > address
> > > bar and allows it to be added to the taskbar. No reimplementation,
> > the
> > > exact same behavior as before SP3.
> > >
> > > http://www.niversoft.com/downloads/xp-sp3-addressbar.zip
> > >
> > > Currently there's no installer, please follow simple instructions in
> > > install.txt
> > >
> > > Software provided AS IS. Has been verified for viruses, but you
> > should
> > > always double-verify anything you download anyway.
> > >
> > >
>
>
>

External Since: Aug 18, 2008 Posts: 1

Google Desktop allows you to search your desktop for anything... But more
relevant to this conversation hitting Ctrl Ctrl pops up a little window that
acts like an enhanced Address Bar. You can search your desktop or the web
from it or you can type in a URL and it will open in your default browser. I
never used it for the URL (didn't think about it) until after my Address Bar
disappeared. It's actually easier to use than the Address Bar was. So
thanks Microsoft for helping me find a better way to work.

Long Live Google

http://desktop.google.com/?utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-goog...utm_med

"Hakkk" wrote:

> To open program/folder/file/url directly instead of 'start-run-balabala' or
> 'open explorer/ie first and type address'.
> To record some data temporarily, such as a phone number.
> To treat it as a 'buffer' of clipboard.
>
> --
> Hakkk from NewSMTH
>
> "Alias" <iamalias DeleteThis @removegmail.com> ??????:fv73td$180$1@aioe.org...
> > Hakkk wrote:
> >> I notice that the address bar in taskbar ([right-click on
> >> taskbar]-[toolbars]-[address]) is removed by SP3. Is there any method to
> >> recover it? Thanks.
> >>
> >
> > What is that used for?
> >
> > Alias
>
>
>