> It just struck me that pproconf probably has to be running as admin to > access the registry to install keys. This probably also applies to > context menus and tray support. > > Are you normally signed on as admin?
Yes, I am, but that doesn't mean that much in vista. You are still limited in what you can do. Being logged in as a user in the Administrators group means that you can do admin things, but only after the OS displays the UAC dialog and the user approves it. I didn't realize that configuration ran as a separate process. PowerPro.exe is running elevated, because I set the shortcut in the startup group to "run as administrator", and I allowed the blocked program to run after logging in, and I approved the UAC dialog. I don't know how pproconf.exe is running. I normally start it by ctrl-right-click on a bar, and select configure. I suspect you should be launching pproconf.exe with a duplicate of the powerpro.exe security attributes, but we're past my knowledge of this stuff at this point. So I went to my start menu, and changed the properties of the all-programs/powerpro/configure shortcut to have "run as administrator" checked. Then I ran that, OK'd the UAC dialog, and uninstalled then re-installed the taskbar support. Unfortunately, the registry keys are still not there, and the taskbar toolbar still doesn't show up. Next I replicated the registry entries from the xp machine to the vista machine. No change until I rebooted (I didn't try logging out and back in). After reboot, Power pro shows up as a tool bar in the task bars list. But clicking on it doesn't enable it. The toolbar doesn't show up, and when you do taskbar/toolbars, the power pro entry still doesn't have a check-mark. So close! :) By the way, while doing this I noticed the HTML-Help link in the start/all programs/power pro group. Of course it would be nice if the program help menus linked to that instead of the winhelp one, but having it certainly reduces the need to install WinHelp. Chris
