An XP user walks into a Language Bar…
10-Sep-2006The Windows XP Languge Bar is useful to many people. Once upon a time I accidentally turned it on. Noticing it a second time, hovering around my taskbar, I turned it off. Noticing it a second time I turned it off. Noticing it a third time I turned it off… Noticing it a fourth time I searched the Internet.
You can’t turn this toolbar off and make it stay off using the same method as other toolbars. Each time you restart Windows it comes back. It’s toolbar Groundhog Day.
Thank you Paul Stubbs for this:
To close the Language bar (using Classic view in Control Panel):
- Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Regional and Language Options.
- On the Languages tab, under Text services and input languages, click Details.
- Under Preferences, click Language Bar.
- Deselect the Show the Language bar on the desktop check box.
It isn’t the registry setting I thought it might require, but it’s not far short in terms of non-obviousness and inconvenience.
Paint Shop Pro?
Alan Green | 10-Sep-2006Paint Shop Pro?
Oh, the less generic title image? One of my
Chris | 12-Sep-2006Oh, the less generic title image? One of my photos of the Palace of Fountainebleu, near Paris.
thank you! just got a dell laptop and went
christopher | 19-Oct-2006thank you! just got a dell laptop and went through that exact ritual. how annoying.
The Micro$lime programmer who decided to make this a DEFAULT
A. Noid. User | 28-Mar-2008The Micro$lime programmer who decided to make this a DEFAULT should be beaten with sticks.