Quick Launch Bar Keeps Disappearing

JOSHSKORN said:

This is something new, it happens probably once every week or two and I'd like to say that I've restored the thing probably 6 or 7 times recently in the past couple months

Why is it all the sudden that my Quick Launch toolbar keeps disappearing? I don't get it. Considering that I as of lately have gotten enough practice in restoring it, I don't need the tutorial anymore.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening again?

Hi JOSHSKORN,

Please check this link below which might be useful for you in resolving this issue:

Quick Launch bar in Windows 7 keeps disappearing after every restart - Microsoft Community

Hope it helps.

Hi, i realise this thread is rather old now, however, after scouring the net for a solution, and failing to find one, i decided to do some testing, think i've at least traced the cause, and have signed up here to share my findings.

The problem lies in Microsoft Visual C++ x86. Specifically msvcp120.dll.

If you remove this file from syswow64, re-instate your quicklaunch toolbar the usual way, then reboot, you will find it stays there \0/ WIN!

Now, unfortunately for me, this file is required by EA's Origin, to run Battefield 1 (called by activationui).

I didn't want to re-install MSVC++ 2013x86, so i did a quick search on my PC and found that msvcp120.dll is in fact already in my Mozilla Thunderbird directory. So i copied this file from Thunderbird to syswow64, and hey presto, Origin/Bf1 runs happily.

Again unfortunately, if you leave it there, then when you reboot, quicklaunch disappears once more.

Solutions:
a) Microsoft sorts their sh*t (MSVC++ x86)
b) EA sort their sh*t (Origin)
c) some clever person writes me a script which copies msvcp120.dll to syswow64 upon Origin.exe launch, and removes it upon Origin.exe exit.




EDIT: I made the script myself, pretty easy really. Job Done!


EDIT: Ok, so i made the script to load the d.ll on BF1 start and unload on BF1 exit, which worked great, but then when i shutdown PC last night too quickly, it didnt give the script long enough to delete the .dll. So i thought, why not just load .dll at login, and delete at shutdown! Done though gpedit! That way anthing that needs this thing will run perfectly, and quicklaunch will still be ther after reboot!

Gpedit\Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\(scripts)starup and shutdown

So on startup:-
robocopy
"C:\Users\user\WhereverYourStoredFileIs" "C:\Windows\syswow64" msvcp120.dll

And on Exit:-
del "C:\Windows\syswow64\msvcp120.dll"

Hope this helps.