Windows 7: Quick Launch - Enable or Disable

Hello Anna,

Are any of these shortcuts in Quick Launch located on a hard drive that may have been turned off in Power Options due to inactivity? This would cause a delay as you wait for the HDD spins back up. If so, you can just set this to Never to not have the HDD turn off.



Hope this helps,
Shawn

Do you mean links in the "Quick Launch" toolbar or in the "Links" toolbar? "Quick links" do not exist per se.
If the problem comes from apps installed on a second HDD as Shawn mentioned, you may want to reinstall them on the main system HDD so you can keep your second HDD idle most of the time.
Check also if you have dead links, shortcuts you copied to the Quick Launch toolbar to apps you later deleted. I suppose this might also confuse Windows.

omg sorry lol cant believe i misread this topic lol, plz delete my comments sorry

LOL, no problem Anna.

there is no way you can fix this problem by doing all the above-mentioned tricks if you are on a windows 7 32-bit OS. Its kinda bud in windows 7 and Server 2008. I have personally tested all the tricks mentioned here and on many other websites, applied the changes, saved the theme, disabled UAC but without any luck. Every restart my cute Quick Launch toolbar disappeared. Then comes the guys who responsible for that "Microsoft Techies" and let me know the reason. Read this


You configure a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to automatically log on when you start the computer. When you restart the computer, any customizations that you made to the Taskbar are lost and the Taskbar is reset to its default settings.


A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, it is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next service pack that contains this hotfix.

For further reading about this go to

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979155

To download this hotfix go here


http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/...155&kbln=en-us


Tested works 100 % on windows 7 32-bit OS. Good Luck

Hmm, I was just reading the tut and I have no dotted lines when the Task Bar is UNlocked.

What do you see then next to the Windows/Start icon when you right-click "Lock the taskbar" on the Taskbar and unselect the checkmark?

Hello Gary,

Could you post a screenshot of your unlocked taskbar to see what may be up with it?

Sure, here it is unlocked.

Garry,

I don't see them either. Are you sure that you have the option unchecked to have the taskbar unlocked?

If so, try the other options below as well to see if one of them may unlock it to show the dotted separator lines.

Taskbar - Lock or Unlock