How to get the CommandManager back?

Right click and turn it off. Then turn it back on. You should see it disappear. When you have the Show discriptions turned off it looks just like another toolbar.

Not so Mr. G. A couple of toolbars disappear when the CommandManager is turned on, yet nothing appears. BTW, where is the option for "show descriptions"?

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If you do a RMB on one of the CommandManager buttons, there is an option to "Show Description." Toggling this will show/turn off the words under the icons. When turned off, they look very similar to toolbars. However, it's still the active CommandManager - look at the LH end. This may be what you are referring to.

WT

You could try turning off all the other toolbars or try dragging and dropping your tollbars one by into the middle of your screen. Then check out the toolbar heading. If it is not the command manager you can double click on the heading and the toolbar will go back to its previous docked postion.

Sorry if I am way off base. I can not think of anything else.

By right clicking on the command manager.

Good idea. No dice though. There really is no visible CommandManager even though SolidWorks thinks it's on. I think it's either off the screen or so small that I can't see it. I couldn't find the setting in the registry, however, I don't know where to look. I did a search for CommandManager. Nothing regarding this setting showed up.

Thanks

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I wonder if that is what "align icons" is for, under the windows menu. To find lost icons that somehow got lost.

That didn't work either. Thanks for the try.

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"T Bennett" wrote in news:bl1ph7$75sr3$ snipped-for-privacy@ID-183945.news.uni-berlin.de:

Have you tried deleting the current user interface key from the SolidWorks area of the registry?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 2004\User Interface

You could hunt it down more specifically if you have the time.

Remember that if you go effing around with your registry, make sure you back it up first.

matt

How about providing some screen shots - maybe we can "see" something we're missing. The problem here is that mine seems to work just fine & I can't get it to misbehave.

WT

I'll make two new posts that will follow in order to keep the file size down. The first will be with the CommandManager off.

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Apparently I can't send attachments using Outlook Express.

I'll give it a shot. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

You have to post them somewhere and then give us the link. This newsgroup takes only text messages.

WT

That did the trick. Thanks

Thanks for the help. Deleting the user interface in the registry worked.