Quick Launch - Enable or Disable

DarrellJ88 said:

Thank you for posting this tutorial, thank you for the detail, and thank you for making it despite whether or not you find the quicklaunch unnecessary. I personally don't see it as unnecessary because items being pinned to the taskbar are fairly large in comparison to quicklaunch icons, as many others have said, and because unopened items pinned to the taskbar get mixed in between opened items pinned to the taskbar. This to me is extremely annoying because I may not normally have certain programs open, but on an occasion if I get enough programs open that are before a program I may frequent, it moves the unopened icon away from where I'm normally used to it being. It's just extremely less efficient to me when things aren't where I left them, so to say.

I agree with that. I think that changing position of menu, toolbar or desktop items is totally unproductive. When you know where items are, you go and click them without thinking and searching. It becomes a reflex clicking. If the system changes the position of your items you have to search, read text (when you have them) or interpret icons (or, worse, you have to hover your icons and wait to get a description...).
For those reasons, I really like the new Office 2007's ribbons. Even if it requires a time to adapt, when you know where the functions are, you get acces to almost every function in two mouse clicks.

What I don't understand either is why Microsoft wants people to search their menu items and files. I don't why they think that users are so stupid, so unstrcuctured that they can't organize their files in folders and subfolders, and that they can't name their files so taht they can find them. I don't know why users should become dependant on search engines.
That's why I don't like the new taskbar and, worse, the new start menu. They are perhaps good for some people but we should have the choice to get the previous (not old) way of use.

I finish by : Thank you for that tutorial !

Brink said:

Hello RJ, and welcome to Seven Forums.

As a workaround, you can pin a folder to the taskbar and place your shortcuts in it instead.

I said I can get the QL bar up and looking like I want. You didn't address my problem. When I arrange the QL buttons as I want them, I lose the order whenever I reboot. How do I get them to stay put?

I would assume that a folder could not be arranged in any order I want it in.

-Bob

TomL12953 said:

rjcarlson49 said:

Brink said:

Yeah, it looks like pinned icons on the taskbar will be the future with Windows 7.

As for the other questions, you should post them in the appropriate General Discussion and Network & Internet forums for them so this tutorial can stay on topic, and so you can get more replies to them.

That is absolutely idiotic. I have 40-50 QL items. That WILL NOT FIT on the task bar as pinned items.

Have you tried checking the "Use small icons" box in Properties? Changing the icons that way makes them the same size as the old QL icons on my system.

Tom L

I have small icons activated everywhere. Small icons on the QL bar are less than a quarter ich square. On the Task bar they are bars that are about a third of an inch high and take up the full width of the task bar (I use it vertically on the left side.)

On the QL part of the task bar I get 3 columns of small icons. I count 52 things I can start up with one click. I could weed out little used ones, but I would still have 30 or more.

-Bob

nice feature, i missed this. Cheers

I am glad this problem is not on 64bit, it would drive me nuts. This thread now 21 pages long, it seems clear to me microsoft made a howler when they though they could make such a big change to the gui like that and people would just accept it.

chrysalis said:

I am glad this problem is not on 64bit, it would drive me nuts. This thread now 21 pages long, it seems clear to me microsoft made a howler when they though they could make such a big change to the gui like that and people would just accept it.

I use 64-bit W7 Home Premium. The QL bar does not disappear, but it does not retain order either. M$ really messed this one up. This thread is up to 21 pages. What does that tell you?

What does that tell you?

I agree they screwed the pooch on this one.

I have to cope with using a corporate SOE, which is still XP based, for much of my professional work and Win 7 at home.... for me Quick Launch functionality is crucial !

I have tried hard to come to terms with the Win 7 taskbar approach but it certainly doesn't work for me.