Comments on: Address missing from toolbars after installing Windows XP SP3

By: fffSteve Asfor

fffSteve Asfor — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:44:38 +0000

arcanus Thumbs up …That is Genius

By: pacaveli

pacaveli — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:07:43 +0000

oh, btw Tyler’s solution worked excellently =)

By: pacaveli

pacaveli — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:04:57 +0000

that’s a pretty stupid reason to remove it, considering the address bar uses whatever your default browser is. Ergo, if firefox is set to your default and you type a URL in that toolbar, it will open in firefox, not IE. I just use it for an always open, run box.

By: John

John — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:02:42 +0000

I created a free replacement, the MuvEnum Address Bar,that adds hotkey support plus a bunch of other features that makes it so you don’t have to do this workaround. Which ever method your prefer is up to you. You can read more about it at http://www.muvenum.com/products/freeware

By: Tony Rairden

Tony Rairden — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:50:49 +0000

Tyler’s solution worked just fine! I use the address bar heavily, and found myself pretty lost without it… It’s good to have it back, without having opened up a security hole and without the likelihood that a future Windows update would spot the old DLL and try to replace it with the SP3 version…

By: Schweinsteiger

Schweinsteiger — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:43:38 +0000

i have another problem when i press right-click on taskbar then toolbars there is nothing but Desktop & Quick launch …

i want the wmp toolbar . i can see all the toolbars when i log in with the administrator account but with any other accout i dont see the other toolbars !!!

win Xp pro sp3

By: Larry J.

Larry J. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:55:40 +0000

Guys, this just worked for me. My PC also would not let me overwrite the dll. All I did was to rename (add “-sp3″) the original file, then drag the new one over! (Frankly, I’m surprised Win let me rename it… but there it is.

By: donny_dodger

donny_dodger — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:10:48 +0000

Many thanks for that tip! I use Firefox, and I was dismayed that the address toolbar was missing. However, I found that I had to boot into command mode and delete the SP3 .dll, and replace it with the one in your zip.

Many thanx again!

By: Bruce Crain

Bruce Crain — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:42:39 +0000

Thanks, Tyler, for the clear instructions. I couldn’t make sense of the folder/toolbar relationship before. However, as Denis posted it seems to disappear when you reboot.

By: Denis

Denis — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:56:50 +0000

The system Tyler suggested works fine until I reboot the computer. Then the address bar is gone again. Any other ideas?

By: Tatoo (Mtl)

Tatoo (Mtl) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:35:03 +0000

Thank you Tyler… I did follow you “add new tool bar” idea and it worked perfectly… not “moving files” or any dangerous things. “Safe option”.

Thanks.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:32:17 +0000

Rather than opening up a security risk that’s been patched… try this:
1. create a new toolbar
– right click on taskbar, toolbars, new toolbar (any folder)
2. undock this new toolbar link (drag off taskbar into desktop)
3. right-click on this undocked new toolbar and choose toolbars
– the address option is still available here!
4. enable address bar
5. drag one or both of the toolbars (address and ‘new’) back to the taskbar
6. remove the undesired toolbar and keep ‘address’

woot!

By: arcanus

arcanus — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:37:41 +0000

But read what hallotoll has to say

Simple, but a little bit dangerous.
All previous versions of browseui.dll before 6.0.2900.3314 contian a security hole fixed first in version 3314. See MS08-024 for details.

How serious is this risk?

By: Andrew Alden

Andrew Alden — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:18:53 +0000

This us unconfirmed at the time of reading, but Explorer is crashing when i search for something using the standard Windows search pane, and the error report contains browseui.dll.

I’m not sure if this was caused by me replacing the file (which worked and brought back my Address bar), but it seems to be. I will look into this further.

By: Carl Oeschger

Carl Oeschger — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:02:24 +0000

Excellent tip! I frequently hit sites by copying/pasting URLs into the Address toolbar; it’s great to have it back!

Again, great research and a great tip!