Explorer Address Bar ActiveX Control gone AWOL

[Feathered1]

Okay: I *think* it's the ActiveX control that's missing.
Specifically, I can't put an Address Bar on my desktop tolbars, or get it to show up in either Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer. If I didn't have a good Netscape installation I'd be rabid by now, but as it stands I am merely annoyed and inconvenienced. I've already tried re-registering browseui, shell32, and a number of other likely suspects. I've cruised through the registry, but needless to say it's hard to find something that you already know isn't there. I would reinstall IE6, but WinXP doesn't exactly let you uninstall it.. I'm considering running WinXP setup again on "upgrade", but this solution seems out of proportion to the problem. Does anyone have any better ideas?

 

[ie6user]

Hi,

Excuse me if I am too abvious, but just in case: dit you unlock the TaskBar (explorer) / ToolBar (iexplore)? sometimes apparently the address bar comes up without a title (which is as it should be, IMNSHO, but opinions differ), and it might be very small... (in the explorer anyway, in Iexplore there is no way (at least not that I know of) to turn of the title of the address bar).

Otherwise: try closing all iexplore processes

 taskkill /im iexplore.exe /f

and opening a fresh versiob (run

iexplore -nohome

) - you might have a startup page that deletes the address bar...

That's all I can think of now...

Good luck,

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[capricornholio]

Hope I understood your question, but it seems you have no address bar in IE or Win explorer? If so try this... open either and right click under the title bar. Make sure address bar is checked. Also if all else fails, open the internet options, go to advanced tab and select &quot;restore defaults&quot; button. Hope this helps!!!

 

[Feathered1]

Thank you both for your time to answer.

I'm sorry to say, though, neither suggestion worked. &quot;Address Bar&quot; is checked, and the toolbars are unlocked. My start page would have no effect on the explorer toolbar on the desktop, but I went ahead and checked that too - nothing.

Anyone know how to convince WinXP to let you reinstall IE6?
Not that this is an exclusively IE6 problem - it doesn't work in the IE4 Compatibility either, which I suppose is mostly there to give you Active Desktop. Would running Windows setup fix this? I hesitate to do that, though - it took me ten days to get XP installed the *first* time! And I'm not sure how far to trust the &quot;Update Existing Installation&quot; option.

 

[Feathered1]

okay: I ran Setup.exe and told WinXP to update it's own installation. That did the trick. Matter of fact, Explorer itself seems to be working better now!