hiding icons in the system tray

[earther]

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

This thread should get nominated at next years awards for sure! It's a marathon masterpiece and nail-biter too!!

[dc dalton]

yeah the prompt is right ... that just shows you what folder youre in

what do you mean it wouldnt work .... it wont tell you anything if thats what you mean

[dc dalton]

once the file is renamed all you have to do is do a

dir *.org

and see if it shows up

then follow the rest

[Coinnach]

Why didn't we just do this through NT explorer??

[earther]

I just ran the ren thing again and got the message "A duplicate file name exists or the file cannot be found".

I'm guessing I run dir *.org after the system32>?

[dc dalton]

Why didn't we just do this through NT explorer??

cause we have to shut down explorer.exe and work below the OS, if windows senses what going on it may freak

besides .... DOS is your friend

[dc dalton]

I just ran the ren thing again and got the message "A duplicate file name exists or the file cannot be found".

I'm guessing I run dir *.org after the system32>?

OK that means the renaming was successful .. KEEP GOING with the instructions

[earther]

But no dialogue box came up! I did the dir *.org and the file is there.

So now I enter?

ren netshell.dll.mod netshell.dll

[dc dalton]

But no dialogue box came up! I did the dir *.org and the file is there.

So now I enter?

ren netshell.dll.mod netshell.dll

if that the next instruction yea ..... Im going to go back a few pages a reread

[earther]

OK, I ran it and got the same message "A duplicate file name exists or the file cannot be found". TIME TO REBOOT?????

[dc dalton]

Yup do that ... I dont know what the heck they are talking about with a dialog box ... not in DOS!

HANG ON BEFORE REBOOT!

[dc dalton]

in that same dos window type this:

dir netshell*

and MAKE sure the file is there .. then you can reboot

[Coinnach]

Sounds like netshell.dll is still there if she got a duplicate when she renamed the .mod version - no?

[earther]

Okie, dokie . . .

This whole proceedure is actually starting to make some sense. That's kinda scary!

[dc dalton]

Sounds like netshell.dll is still there if she got a duplicate when she renamed the .mod version - no?

no ... I think she did it twice thats why she got it

We can always tell by the timestamp

[earther]

in that same dos window type this:

dir netshell*

and MAKE sure the file is there .. then you can reboot

Yup, got three there .dll, .dll.org and .dll.mod

REBOOT TIME???????????????

[dc dalton]

whats the date and time on the netshell.dll?

[Coinnach]

Ok so are we in the rebooting stage?

[earther]

OMG! They are all 08/04/2004. Maybe I didn't do the reshack thing right?

[dc dalton]

OMG! They are all 08/04/2004. Maybe I didn't do the reshack thing right?

Thats what I was afraid of .... do this. delete the netshell.dll

type this

del netshell.dll

then do this

dir netshell*

and make sure its gone

then following the instructions to rename the modded one to the netshell.dll

[earther]

It won't delete. MAYDAY! MAYDAY!!!!

[Coinnach]

DC, can you reshack one for Earther and email it to her?? Then she can delete all of them except whats in the C:\Windows\System32 folder and go through the process again?

[dc dalton]

It won't delete. MAYDAY! MAYDAY!!!!

AH HAH ........ did you shut down explorer.exe

thats why it didnt work right ........ something has a lock on it!

[dc dalton]

DC, can you reshack one for Earther and email it to her?? Then she can delete all of them except whats in the C:\Windows\System32 folder and go through the process again?

I could but my win2k one wont be the same!

[Coinnach]

Tell me how to do it and I'll do it on one of XPs here at the shop