Solved Why does the first opened program doc in front of the Quick Launch?

[Advice Pro]

How do I change the taskbar to not do this, i.e. be like Vista's?

 

[Brink]

Hello Advice Pro,

Do you have Quick Launch moved to the far left side like in step 8 in the tutorial below?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Advice Pro]

No, I don't think that it is the QL. It's what's on the left in 8c. I want to know what that is called?

 

[Brink]

Could you post a screenshot showing it to see if someone may be able to ID it?

 

[Advice Pro]

My taskbar:

 

[Brink]

Ah, ok. It looks like you have the taskbar set to Never combine for buttons instead of Always combine, hide labels for icons.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/496-taskbar-button-grouping-enable-disable.html

 

[Advice Pro]

Now the icons are how I like them, but the opened program doesn't show:

 

[Brink]

Do you mean that the Internet Explorer icon doesn't show on your taskbar when it's opened??

 

[Advice Pro]

No, I mean that the tasbar doesn't show this:

 

[Brink]

The taskbar can only show icons (never combined) or buttons (when combined) for opened items, but not both. Do you have icons currently?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/496-taskbar-button-grouping-enable-disable.html

 

[Advice Pro]

Yeah, I can just use the quick launch. I only liked that the icons were much more seperated. Can you tell me, is it from left to right that the programs can be launched with shortcuts, i.e. the order of the apps correspond with rb: + 1 - 9

 

[Brink]

Correct, the Windows Key + 1-10 shortcuts would be from left to right for pinned icons on the taskbar. This doesn't apply to icons in Quick Launch though.

 

[Advice Pro]

So, how do you add shortcuts quick launch apps?

 

[Brink]

The Quick Launch folder is located at the hidden system folder location below to add shortcuts to.

C:\Users\(user-name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
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Personally, I like using the method in the tutorial below by "Send to" Quick Launch.

Quick Launch - Add to "Send to" Context Menu in Windows 8
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Are you sure that you don't mean to pin programs to the taskbar?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/397-taskbar-pin-unpin-program.html
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[Advice Pro]

I've decided to stick with the taskbar buttons and never combine. I can't add the Downloads shortcut to the taskbar. Why is this?

 

[Brink]

Only programs have the "Pin to Taskbar" option in their context menu. For folders, you would need to use the tutorial below to add them as a toolbar on taskbar instead.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9305-taskbar-pin-unpin-folder.html

 

[Advice Pro]

At the Taskbar Windows Explorer icon > Properties > Shortcut > Target, I replaced %windir%\explorer.exe with %MyUserProfile%\Downloads. I'm just trying to save RAM on my netbook. I just want to know how to move the icons around.

 

[Brink]

Yep, that method to replace the target would work as well.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2863-windows-explorer-taskbar-icon-change-open-target.html
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To move icons on the taskbar, you could just drag and drop them left or right to whatever order you like among them within the taskbar.