Remember the Quick Launch Bar? Want it back?

from JoeUser Forums

 

 

Well it’s as easy as it could be. Some of these are my screenies and some are Mark Kaelin’s.

1. Right click on an empty part of your task bar. Unlock it (if it’s locked).

2. Click “New toolbar”.

 

3. In the destination box, type in:  %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch . You can always remove IE later if you want, and substitute whichever files or programs you wish.

4.  Ta-da! One Quick Launch Bar. Now you can choose to have text, small icons or large icons.

 

Source:

http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/get-the-quick-launch-bar-back-in-windows-7/425873?tag=thumbnail-view-selector;get-photo-roto

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Nice tip Doc. That was the first thing I did WAY back when I installed Win7.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Great post, I did this the day I installed 7 myself. I don't like the default Win7 taskbar and hate my desktop cluttered with shortcuts.

Fences - Organize your desktop icons today!
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Phoon, reply 1
Nice tip Doc. That was the first thing I did WAY back when I installed Win7.
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Quoting mentalinstra, reply 2
Great post, I did this the day I installed 7 myself. I don't like the default Win7 taskbar and hate my desktop cluttered with shortcuts.
End of mentalinstra's quote

Me three! <3

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah, Doc USUALLY keeps up to date with fresh news. He must be having an off day (or he was looking at that pic of RND when he just woke up and it snapped his brain cells. I know I haven't slept well since seeing it...) :rofl:

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top


???

I still have the quicklaunch bar....but thanks for showing me that win7 falls short yet again.

XD

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Must have been the RnD thing.

 

 

 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The first thing I did with W7 was new toolbar > Programs (you may have to change permissions on the folder) so I have a 'normal' type start menu (on the right).

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You're writing about an x486 system Fuzzy, or an x64? If x64 which 'Programs' did you choose (x486 or x64)?

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 8
You're writing about an x486 system Fuzzy,
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I must ask ( at my own peril ), Doc.... WTF is x486? Did you mean x86? Have you further demonstrated how gravity affects little balls made of highly polished stone and the way it tends to scatter them to elusiveness?

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Phoon, reply 9
I must ask ( at my own peril ), Doc.... WTF is x486? Did you mean x86? Have you further demonstrated how gravity affects little balls made of highly polished stone and the way it tends to scatter them to elusiveness?
End of Phoon's quote

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Rosco_P, reply 11

x486...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486
End of Rosco_P's quote

The 486... My first PC.... *sigh*
Back in 1998. A 486, 100Mhz, 5 MB RAM, 1 GB HD. State of the art, top of the range monster back then (over here).

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Snowman, reply 12
The 486... My first PC.... *sigh*
Back in 1998. A 486, 100Mhz, 5 MB RAM, 1 GB HD. State of the art, top of the range monster back then (over here).
End of Snowman's quote

I had a 286 then stepped up to a 486-DX266. Flying at the speed of light with DOS6.2 !!

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Phoon, reply 9

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 8You're writing about an x486 system Fuzzy,

I must ask ( at my own peril ), Doc.... WTF is x486? Did you mean x86? Have you further demonstrated how gravity affects little balls made of highly polished stone and the way it tends to scatter them to elusiveness?
End of Phoon's quote

I was using x486=x86 = 32 bit.

Shoon [insert Sean Connery accent], Phoon. ;) 

 

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My simple Programs menu...

 

Stuff that W7/Vista rubbish where you click on endless links then can't nip to where you want when you realise you're in the wrong place. The start menu in XP was so much simpler and easier to use...

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

First bought machine was a P100 with it's 1gig HD and 8meg of ram [I think] ....before that there were 2 8086's ...one a clone...the other a real IBM XT .....had a 1 meg expansion 'card' about the length of a semi trailer.  Colour screen, too.....just as long as everything was green.

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 15
The start menu in XP was so much simpler and easier to use...
End of Fuzzy's quote

That's what I loved about RightClick. Simple and easy, and as a bonus skinnable - but also, sadly, dead/gone/killed.

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

True.. RightClick was great and I loved it dearly. Wish it were still 'alive'. But... this was more about 'now' than then and how to do it with what you have available.

 

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My first computer I purchased was a Kaypro II running the CP/M operating system and sporting the ultra-zippy 2.5Mhz Z80 CPU. It had a ripping 64K of RAM and not one but TWO single sided single density floppy drives! Ah yeah. Plus, as it was made of metal and was a single piece (including the 9" 24 lines by 80 character green display!) you could (if you were strong enough) carry it around from place to place. Now, no one else had a computer back then and there was only a single serial port and one parallel port, so LAN parties were right out. But I did have a color printer (it had BOTH a black ribbon and a red ribbon for the typewriter to use. DELUXE!)

The thing was nicknamed Darth Vader's Lunchbox.

Good times. Good times.