Windows 7 Jumplist

hey guys, new to win 7 and have been reading a lot but haven't been able to find a solution that doesn't involve having to install another program. I am hoping that you guys can give me some advice or at least point me in the right direction.

My issue is that I use the Adobe suite on pretty much a daily basis. In Vista I just had the most common ones (~6) on my quick launch and that was fine enough. With Win7 and the jumplist, I was hoping that there would be a way to have one single icon, folder or otherwise that I could click-hold and slide up to the appropriate app and release in order to launch it. Or maybe even if I could create shortcuts to them with the win key or something nifty like that. Is there a way to do this? Or am i going to have to install one of those stacks programs? If so, which is recommended? Thanks!

Well, what i was trying to do is create a folder of shortcuts of the apps and then pin that to the taskbar thereby hoping to have it allow me to jump to those apps... as i am sure you know, that didn't work... lol but some kind of workaround like that... anything? anyone?