If you prefer to have one click icons, for folders, directly on your taskbar:
Right-click on the taskbar and then go to "Toolbars" -> and select "New toolbar" you can set up icons for your folders.
The detailed explanation: Windows Safety Tips, Hotkeys and Shorcuts
I think what I want to do is just not possible
Is there some reason you would prefer having them in the start menu; as opposed to, directly on the taskbar?
Since the taskbar is visible before the start menu is, this saves you time. Here is what I mean:
The icons are set to large.
Also, you can make a hotkey for any folder by making a shorcut for it, and then right-click on that shorcut, go to "Properties" and under the "Shortcut" tab enter a ctrl+alt+x or ctrl+shift+x hotkey in the "Shortcut key" area.
Last edited by dimorphic; 07 Nov 2010 at 16:32.
A few other points worth covering are:
- I noticed that your Windows Explorer button (top icon next to the start button in my image below) is gone. Do you realize that right-clicking on that shows: all recently visited folders, and includes an area where you can pin any folder you want.
- You could right-click the start-button and go to "Properties" then "Customize", where you will select "Favorites menu". You could then clear that out and put the folders you want in there; or you could right-click on "Favorites" in the start menu and click "Properties" and go to the "Location" tab where you can set the path to your desired folder. This might be the closest to what you want.
- In that same menu you selected "Favorites Menu"-- I enable "Recent items", this is all of the files you have recently been to.
So with the Start-menu, 'Windows Explorer button' and "Recent items" you can view all of the programs, folders and files you have recently visited the most.
Long story short, custom toolbars are still the fastest way (by mouse) to open a folder or program in Windows 7.
Last edited by dimorphic; 07 Nov 2010 at 16:42.
I don't disagree
but
I like a very uncluttered desktop. That means no desktop icons, nothing on the taskbar, etc. In fact I actually get rid of the task bar altogether so that just the Start button remains hence the original question.
I keep a clear desktop as well and use auto-hide; but 'getting rid' of the taskbar 'altogether' serves no point; and having a small icon (which you can make look anyway you wish) for two folders, is not cluttering anything. You have been given practical solutions that are more efficient than your request; if your conceptual model of an 'uncluttered' computer denies you from making use of beneficial features, then that is a self-limiting model. Good luck.
My statement was not meant as an attack. "...if your conceptual model of an 'uncluttered' computer denies you from making use of beneficial features, then that is a self-limiting model." This is in fact a helpful statement if: I help you to modify your model, allowing you to make use of the possibilities you are unnecessarily limiting yourself from choosing.
However, I will admit, that internet forums may not be the right place to encourage psychological breakthroughs.
Furthermore, I also put time and effort into providing you with the closest options based on your desires. Subsequently telling me, "If you can't help then please don't." amounts to the reciprocation I have received from trying to help you.
Last edited by dimorphic; 08 Nov 2010 at 15:24.
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