5342 x64 media player icon quick launch

The icon of media player in the quick launch seems to disapear each time i boot. Its not getting removed from the quick launch but the icon changes like the icon can't be found. If i go to properties of the shortcut and change icon, i just have to click ok to get the icon back.

My Quick Launch menu seems to duck and dive in the taskbar - so now I've got the single "show desktop" and that's it. Bugged it about a month ago :o)
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--: Original message follows :-- "Deborggraeve Randy" wrote in message

The icon of media player in the quick launch seems to disapear each time i boot. Its not getting removed from the quick launch but the icon changes like the icon can't be found. If i go to properties of the shortcut and change icon, i just have to click ok to get the icon back.

You mean like it gets hidden in the quick launch area? Its there, but if you hover the mouse pointer in the right location and click it will launch WMP? It looks like a graphical bug to me. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Deborggraeve Randy" wrote in message

The icon of media player in the quick launch seems to disapear each time i boot. Its not getting removed from the quick launch but the icon changes like the icon can't be found. If i go to properties of the shortcut and change icon, i just have to click ok to get the icon back.

Have you noticed Andre that the entire desktop seems to be built up in layers to some degree? Not so much in 5342 as they've fixed the "fade from black to desktop" bit, but in 5308 you could see individual bits of the taskbar especially loading - the taskbar, then the Start orb, then the quick launch, *then* the icons and then the Glass transparency...
....hated it when the Start orb didn't even load up at times... just a grey block! :-o
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--: Original message follows :-- "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

You mean like it gets hidden in the quick launch area? Its there, but if you hover the mouse pointer in the right location and click it will launch WMP? It looks like a graphical bug to me. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Deborggraeve Randy" wrote in message The icon of media player in the quick launch seems to disapear each time i boot. Its not getting removed from the quick launch but the icon changes like the icon can't be found. If i go to properties of the shortcut and change icon, i just have to click ok to get the icon back.

I know what you mean, I remember in earlier builds, I think 5270, the orb would go at the top of the screen, the back to the bottom then the entire taskbar would appear. There is still an issue with setting new desktop wall papers, the taskbars translucency does not adjust to the changes, so you see reminants of the last wall paper used. -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

Have you noticed Andre that the entire desktop seems to be built up in layers to some degree? Not so much in 5342 as they've fixed the "fade from black to desktop" bit, but in 5308 you could see individual bits of the taskbar especially loading - the taskbar, then the Start orb, then the quick launch, *then* the icons and then the Glass transparency...
...hated it when the Start orb didn't even load up at times... just a grey block! :-o
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--: Original message follows :-- "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message You mean like it gets hidden in the quick launch area? Its there, but if you hover the mouse pointer in the right location and click it will launch WMP? It looks like a graphical bug to me. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Deborggraeve Randy" wrote in message The icon of media player in the quick launch seems to disapear each time i boot. Its not getting removed from the quick launch but the icon changes like the icon can't be found. If i go to properties of the shortcut and change icon, i just have to click ok to get the icon back.

One "classic Vista moment" was being able to have maximised windows open in the background totally covering the wallpaper (like Messenger for example), have another dialog in front of it, and you could see the wallpaper through the transparency, even though it was the maximised application!
Thankfully they fixed this but came back a "no-repro"... :os
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--: Original message follows :-- "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

I know what you mean, I remember in earlier builds, I think 5270, the orb would go at the top of the screen, the back to the bottom then the entire taskbar would appear. There is still an issue with setting new desktop wall papers, the taskbars translucency does not adjust to the changes, so you see reminants of the last wall paper used. -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message Have you noticed Andre that the entire desktop seems to be built up in layers to some degree? Not so much in 5342 as they've fixed the "fade from black to desktop" bit, but in 5308 you could see individual bits of the taskbar especially loading - the taskbar, then the Start orb, then the quick launch, *then* the icons and then the Glass transparency...
...hated it when the Start orb didn't even load up at times... just a grey block! :-o
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--: Original message follows :-- "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message You mean like it gets hidden in the quick launch area? Its there, but if you hover the mouse pointer in the right location and click it will launch WMP? It looks like a graphical bug to me. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Deborggraeve Randy" wrote in message The icon of media player in the quick launch seems to disapear each time i boot. Its not getting removed from the quick launch but the icon changes like the icon can't be found. If i go to properties of the shortcut and change icon, i just have to click ok to get the icon back.

Zack Whittaker wrote:

Have you noticed Andre that the entire desktop seems to be built up in layers to some degree?

That would be the Desktop Composition Engine that has been written about so much...

Well it sucks at times!
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--: Original message follows :-- "Mike Williams" wrote in message

Zack Whittaker wrote: Have you noticed Andre that the entire desktop seems to be built up in layers to some degree?
That would be the Desktop Composition Engine that has been written about so much...

Its not hidden, just the icon is wrong. For example, if u remove an application, and the icon is still in start menu, it changes to some other icon ... like the icon cant be found. Thats what im having with media player, i see the icon, but its the wrong icon.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

You mean like it gets hidden in the quick launch area? Its there, but if you hover the mouse pointer in the right location and click it will launch WMP? It looks like a graphical bug to me. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Deborggraeve Randy" wrote in message The icon of media player in the quick launch seems to disapear each time i boot. Its not getting removed from the quick launch but the icon changes like the icon can't be found. If i go to properties of the shortcut and change icon, i just have to click ok to get the icon back.