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Forums -> UltraMon™ -> Smart Taskbar gone AWOL on Vista
mroach   2007-02-26 03:58
The Smart Taskbar was working fine for a few days but then just totally disappeared after a restart. As far as I can recall the only thing that changed since the last restart was that I installed my Contour ShuttlePro driver.

UltraMonTaskbar.exe is running, but the Windows are all tied to the main Vista taskbar and the Ultramon taskbar is nowhere to be found. UltraMonTaskbar.exe starts and stops properly if I cycle the Smart Taskbar checkbox. I've uninstalled and reinstalled UltraMon a couple times now, deleting all configuration data (that I could find) between each.

Any ideas? I'm happy to dig up any information that will be useful for you.

Vista 32-bit, running Aero. Still doesn't work if I turn off Aero.

Here's a handle dump from Process Explorer

Type Name
Desktop \Default
Directory \KnownDlls
Directory \Sessions\2\BaseNamedObjects
Event \BaseNamedObjects\TermSrvReadyEvent
File C:\Windows\System32
File C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.6000.16386_none_5d07289e07e1d100
File C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.6000.16386_none_5d07289e07e1d100
File C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.6000.16386_none_5d07289e07e1d100
File \Device\KsecDD
Key HKLM
Key HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager
Key HKCU
Key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Key HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Hardware Profiles\0001
Key HKU
Key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options
Key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\DllNXOptions
Key HKCR
Mutant \Sessions\2\BaseNamedObjects\Realtime Soft UltraMon 2 Taskbar Single Instance Mutex
Section \Sessions\2\BaseNamedObjects\windows_shell_global_counters
Section \BaseNamedObjects\__ComCatalogCache__
Section \BaseNamedObjects\__ComCatalogCache__
Thread UltraMonTaskbar.exe(6120): 4172
Thread UltraMonTaskbar.exe(6120): 6136
WindowStation \Sessions\2\Windows\WindowStations\WinSta0
WindowStation \Sessions\2\Windows\WindowStations\WinSta0
mroach   2007-02-26 04:58
Problem solved. Right after I posted that I realized I didn't check the registry for configuration stuff. I deleted HKCU\Software\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\SmartTaskbar and restarted. That did the trick.

I'm going to keep an eye on Process Monitor to see if whatever screwed up the registry setting returns to do more harm.
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