Lock Quick Launch Menu Icons

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Lately, every now and then, the icons in my Quick Launch menus will decide to rearrange themselves, then I go through Hell on Earth trying to drag the stupid things back into position. It can take as much as 30 minutes before I can get the misbegotten things back where they are supposed to be. :mad2: Usually, it happens when I reboot but today now, twice, the stupid things rearranged themselves while the computer was running. Is there any way to get the blasted little buggers to stay put?

 

[Ranger4]

Is this MS website any help for you.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/975784/guided-help-enable-the-quick-launch-bar-in-windows-7

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Is this MS website any help for you.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/975784/guided-help-enable-the-quick-launch-bar-in-windows-7

Nope. It only tells how to set it up and add icons, which I already knew, not how to get the misbegotten little buggers to stay put. Thanks anyway.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Anyone else?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Not exactly sure what a quick launch is
If you mean jump lists of recently open items of start menu items I haven't noticed anything different or different arrangements :/

Oops I see from the link posted you're referring to a taskbar toolbar
I haven't ever went through the trouble of creating one sorry.

 

[Layback Bear]

I have never used a quick launch, so I'm unable to help.
SORRY.

Jack

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Thanks for replying, guys. The Quick Launch Menu is a holdover from XP that MS, in their infinite wisdom ( :sarc: ) chose to hide in Win 7. Curiously, I never used it in XP but have found it to be essential in Win 7.

Here (inside the red circle) is what it looks like on my task bar:



It has shortcuts to my most frequently used programs, folders, and even my SSDs. It's more convenient that the Start Menu (I have over 100 programs on my computer and, yes, I use them all although some are used very infrequently).

Rearranging icons around down in the notification tray by dragging them is easy but, for some wacky reason, when my idiot computer decides to randomly rearrange the icons for me in the QL Menu (how considerate of it :sarc: , I have one "heckuva" time dragging them back into position because the misbegotten things go where they want to go, not where I drag them to. I have to try to reposition each one repeatedly to get the stupid things to "stick" where I stick them. This is why I'm trying to find out if there is any way I can lock them into place.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Looks now like an extension to the action center
I can also see why it would be a pain you have several icons that look the same.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Hi,
Looks now like an extension to the action center
I can also see why it would be a pain you have several icons that look the same.

Curiously enough, the ones that look the same aren't the ones that move around on me. It's the ones I use the most that don't like to stay put. I sometimes have to click on an icon (usually the ones for Media Center, Kindle of PC, and Power DVD; I also use a couple down in the notification tray) while lying in bed using my TV for a monitor and a wireless mouse for a remote. If the icons have moved on me, I don't know where to click. When I am sitting at my desk, it's a pain in the neck (literally) to have to hunt down the correct little bugger when it has relocated its sorry little self.

Of course, since I started carping about them on here, they decided they would behave for a while (mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble :sarc: ).