Quicklaunch bar configuration

[Xiven 0]

Someone e-mailed me asking this:

 

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How the heck did you do that with your quick launch bar? Cool stuff....thanks for any help you could give me.

 

Well they were talking about this.

 

 

So for anyone who cares and doesn't yet know how to do this, here was my reply:

 

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1) Create a directory (call it "toolbars" or something) somewhere on your hard drive.

 

2) In this directory, create one subdirectory for each toolbar you want, eg. create a "Games" directory, an "Internet" directory or however you want to classify your quicklaunch shortcuts.

 

3) Right-click on your taskbar and go to Toolbars -> New Toolbar...

 

4) Browse to one of your subdirectories and click "Ok"

 

5) A new toolbar should have appeared on your taskbar, which with some dragging around you can hopefully get it to appear in the right place. You can then drag shortcuts onto this toolbar in the same way that you can with the normal quicklaunch toolbar.

 

You may want to right-click on the new toolbar and untick the "Show text" option which will stop it putting the names of the shortcuts next to each icon.

 

6) Do steps 3-5 for each toolbar subdirectory you created.

 

Note you can also add folders such as "my network places", "my computer" or "desktop" as toolbars too.

 

Yeah, most of you probably already knew all that, but I hope it helps someone

 

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Xiven

[felix 0]

You can also do something like I do:

 

Load up your quicklaunch bar with everything you ever use and then resize it to minimum. You then have a modified start menu when you click on the two little arrows.

 

I do it with "my computer" and "network" too.

 

Thus my taskbar virtually has three pop up menus.

[Xiven 0]

Yeah, that's quite a neat little trick too.