hiding icons in the system tray

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 15:58

BTW, have you tried to find the dll yet? IT MAY not be where they say it is as youre running XP I found it here:

and if youre not good in a cmd line heres a couple of quick commands

dir - means show all files and folders

you can also do a

dir nets*

which brings back everything that starts with nets

to go up one folder:

cd ..

to go into a folder do

cd folder_name

and instead of retyping a command you can use the up and down arrows to scroll thru commands you already typed!

So are we ready to take the plunge??

**earther** · Mar 31, 2005 16:55

Originally Posted by dc dalton

BTW, have you tried to find the dll yet?

Yup.

So are we ready to take the plunge??

I think so. You've provided an excellent tut. Need to cool off a bit - been our pruning and sawing. Then I have to image, back up the .dll file and it's show time. If I backup the .dll to my second internal drive will windows find it or does it need to be out of the compi altogether? Maybe I should save it as .dll.org?

Oh, by the way . . . be as silly as you want. I know first-hand what these brain twisters do to am otherwise sane mind!!

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 17:00

SANE? Oh you definately have the wrong person there!

I think renaming it to .org will handle it nicely .... and with the image in hand if it screws up you have plan B anyways!

**earther** · Mar 31, 2005 17:07

I can only find that one netshell.dll file. Cannot find dllcache or ServicePackFiles. Searched my entire C drive. Hmmm . . . think I should go ahead anyway?

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 17:31

Yeah I wouldnt worry about them .... that could be for another OS..

The only last thing I would do would be do a full system search for that dll

OH did you make sure you have hidden and system folders showing? go into explorer and go to tools > folder options and click on the tab (look at the pic) and then make sure the show hidden files is checked

Then check for the dll again!

**earther** · Mar 31, 2005 17:42

Originally Posted by dc dalton

OH did you make sure you have hidden and system folders showing?

Yup, that one of the first customizations I did. Some other things have come up - like Survivor etc. - so this will have to wait until later tonight. Just so you won't wonder where I disappeared to . . . Besides there an electrical storm brewing so I need to shut this down for now.

**Coinnach** · Mar 31, 2005 18:17

Sorry guys, took me awhile to get on today, had to deal with some stuff at the shop. Searched XP and found the netshell.dll twice, once in C:\Windows\System32 and once in the ServicePacks\i386 - no entries for the dllcache so I guess all systems are go

Earther, you only found it once, does that mean you have servicepacked your version of XP?

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 18:51

Isnt the ServicePacks\i386 ONLY you you choose yes to save the SP files on the machine for rollback?

If she chooses no I dont think she'll have that folder.

**earther** · Mar 31, 2005 18:57

Originally Posted by Coinnach

Earther, you only found it once, does that mean you have servicepacked your version of XP?

Welcome back! XP was installed with SP 2. All updates are current. I'm searching again right now. Nope, no ServicePacks\i386. Only i386 folder is in the Driver Cache folder where the sp2.cab is located.

I'll be back in an hour . . .

**Coinnach** · Mar 31, 2005 18:58

Originally Posted by dc dalton

Isnt the ServicePacks\i386 ONLY you you choose yes to save the SP files on the machine for rollback?

If she chooses no I dont think she'll have that folder.

True but I would always keep my option for rollback open!

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 19:22

Originally Posted by Coinnach

True but I would always keep my option for rollback open!

NAH just wasted hard drive space in my book ...... only rollback I do is:

gdisk 1 /del /all

and / or

gdisk 1 /mbr /wipe

**Coinnach** · Mar 31, 2005 19:41

Originally Posted by dc dalton

NAH just wasted hard drive space in my book ...... only rollback I do is:

gdisk 1 /del /all

and / or

gdisk 1 /mbr /wipe

You you're good you!

**earther** · Mar 31, 2005 20:03

The storm has passed and I'm about to do the backups before trying the fix. Are you guys going to be around in about 20 min so if I get stuck I can get some real-time advice?

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 20:04

OH and I forgot the 2nd part of that

after gdisk 1 /del /all

of course we need:

gdisk 1 /cre /pri /sz:33% /for /q

and then

gdisk 1 /cre /ext

and then

gdisk 1 /cre /log /sz:50% for /q (twice mind you)

then

cd f:

cd i386

winnt

boom your done ......... there's your "rollback"

OH but I did miss installing smartdrive there ... add

cd a

smartdrv

and THEN back to the f drive!

I swear I could do that in my sleep!

**earther** · Mar 31, 2005 20:20

Show off!

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 20:21

Originally Posted by earther

Show off!

Hey I always say "If you got it FLAUNT IT"

Yeah Ill be here till about 2am EST .....

**Coinnach** · Mar 31, 2005 20:43

Originally Posted by dc dalton

OH and I forgot the 2nd part of that

after gdisk 1 /del /all

of course we need:

gdisk 1 /cre /pri /sz:33% /for /q

and then

gdisk 1 /cre /ext

and then

gdisk 1 /cre /log /sz:50% for /q (twice mind you)

then

cd f:

cd i386

winnt

boom your done ......... there's your "rollback"

OH but I did miss installing smartdrive there ... add

cd a

smartdrv

and THEN back to the f drive!

I swear I could do that in my sleep!

YYYYAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNN!!!!!! Bored!

**earther** · Mar 31, 2005 20:50

Originally Posted by dc dalton

Yeah Ill be here till about 2am EST .....

Great! Just finished verifying my image. Time to go for it! Keeping fingers crossed.

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 20:51

OH .....................

Coinnach

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 20:52

Originally Posted by earther

Great! Just finished verifying my image. Time to go for it! Keeping fingers crossed.

we'll be waiting with bated breath!

**Coinnach** · Mar 31, 2005 21:03

Originally Posted by earther

Great! Just finished verifying my image. Time to go for it! Keeping fingers crossed.

Cool!!

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 21:14

and they waited, nerves on edge, adreniline pumping, edgy to the end. They waited for the response they hoped would come while dreading the worst that could happen.

Oh how the clocked seemed to stall ... every tick of its mechanics a seemingly endless interval

but still they could not look away ...... so they waited

We need the music from Jeopardy here!

**Coinnach** · Mar 31, 2005 21:18

122 freakin posts on this - man

Damn thats 123

**dc dalton** · Mar 31, 2005 21:21

OK, 124th post or not ........ now Im starting to sweat bullets!

**earther** · Mar 31, 2005 21:26

More like the Twilight Zone.

Got to the point where I end tasked explorer.exe and started to enter commands. I just can't get the commands to work - undoubtedly something basic like when do I hit enter or repeat cd.

cd\
cd windows\system32
ren netshell.dll netshell.dll.org

I entered cd\ then hit enter which got me to C:\>

Then after C:\> I typed cd windows\system32 then hit enter and got

C:\>windows\system32>

Then I tried typing the ren thingie after that but can't get it to work. HELP!

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