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Quick launch disappears after restarting

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by a former member

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Each time I restart, my quick lauch disappears from my taskbar even after I tried checking 'quick launch' in the toolbar and from checking it off under the start menu. I'm not sure why it won't stay. I have read that someone else had the same problem (djs27), but I do not seem to have the same situation. Furthermore, I doubt this is the cause of TweakUI since I've checked for the 'classicshell' key, and it isn't there. Are there any other suggestions? Much appreciated.

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by grey_woolf

Either a local policy has been set to not allow a local desktop from being saved, or a network admin has set the domain server to not let the desktop to be saved.
Contact you system admin.

by kel_hawk_0307

This was caused by a Spyware program that automatically installs a search toolbar on your computer.

To fix:

In Registry Editor (Start > Run... > regedit), navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Name: Userinit

Data: %system32%\wsaupdater.exe,

%system32% represents the path to the System32 folder. For example, if the path is C:\Windows\System32, then the data would be

C:\Windows\System32\wsaupdater.exe,

Instead of wsaupdater.exe, the data should contain userinit.exe,. Using the example above, the data would be

C:\Windows\System32\userinit.exe,

Do not forget to add the comma at the end.

Close the Registry Editor and reboot your computer. Problem solved.

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