windows 7 quick launch like XP / VISTA ?

[melex]

The only think i still don't like in windows 7 is the quick launch bar and the taskbar,too.
I tried this link : Add the Quick Launch Bar to the Taskbar in Windows 7 :: the How-To Geek
but i just don't like it.
I hope that someone will modify it,soon.
If you have some links /informations/ about that,please post here or PM.
Thanks.

 

[tehelite]

Well the link you posted on the how-to-geek seems to be just like what you're after.. So

 

[melex]

Well the link you posted on the how-to-geek seems to be just like what you're after.. So

Not really. I meant exactly like in XP / VISTA.
I tried this one out,but it's not the same like in XP or Vista.

 

[Dixon Butz]

It's exactly the same as Vista/xp

 

[melex]

It's exactly the same as Vista/xp

Sorry,is not the same. For example : after i opened Mozilla Firefox,and i wanna open again one more,from the quick launch,in XP i just press the Mozilla icon,but in W7 i have to right click on the opened one,and so on....
That's just an example. There is more,but anyway.

 

[Mark]

Sorry,is not the same. For example : after i opened Mozilla Firefox,and i wanna open again one more,from the quick launch,in XP i just press the Mozilla icon,but in W7 i have to right click on the opened one,and so on....
That's just an example. There is more,but anyway.

If you have applied it correctly that is not the case, all you need to do is create a new toolbar and then add your shorcuts to it and it will behave in the same manner as Quicklaunch.

If you don't want to make your own toolbar then you can easily open up a second instance of an application (eg. IE or Firefox) by clicking on your pinned or running app with the midle button on your mouse.

 

[ten]

You may be mixing up the superbar and Quick Launch. I just tested a shortcut on Quick Launch by clicking it twice and it opened twice just like XP.

 

[melex]

You may be mixing up the superbar and Quick Launch. I just tested a shortcut on Quick Launch by clicking it twice and it opened twice just like XP.

Please give / explain / more details about how to do that.

 

[torrentg]

This is mine. To get similar, activate quick launch, then with taskbar not locked, right click in the quick launch and select view | large icons. Also, uncheck show title. Then lock the taskbar again if that's how you like it.

Also, I'm using a double sized taskbar as you can see.

 

[ten]

Look at image. I left it showing the title so it's easier to distinguish.

On the right is Quick Launch and on the left is the superbar. The superbar is something like a Quick Launch and taskbar combined. You can remove all the pinned items from the superbar if you want to achieve something similar to XP.

Here it is looking and acting almost identical to XP.

 

[tehelite]

Lmao did you see the last picture? It looks EXACTLY like XP and Vista..

 

[melex]

Lmao did you see the last picture? It looks EXACTLY like XP and Vista..

And how did you fix it ? I tried everything possible,but i can't have it like yours.

 

[melex]

And how did you fix it ? I tried everything possible,but i can't have it like yours.

Please help me ,someone.
I wanna have it same like in the post above.
Thanks.

 

[Kari]

My Quick Launch works just as it worked in XP and Vista. I want to open something I just click the button on QL and that's it. See the image, QL on top under the orb (my taskbar is on the left).

 

[Brink]

This will show you how to have Quick Launch in Windows 7 like it was in Vista.

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

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[flirno]

Quick Launch was just a name for the default/prefabricated/predfined toolbar. This could be pulled out of the default location in the task bar and put wherever.

'Quick Launch' for the toolbar is analogous to the default/prefabricated/predifined 'Links' folder in the old Internet Explorer Bookmarks.

What is missing is toolbar from XP which could be put on any side of the monitor.

THEN

You could create a new toolbar and name it Quicker Launch, and then put THAT on another side of the monitor.

THEN

You could do this 2 more times and have 4 totally different toolbars (only one of which was the 'quick launch', each defined by unique system folders) on each side of your monitor. (These toolbars could also be 'copies' of each other instead as they really just pointed to a system folder; you could have multiple copies of the quick launch at need.)

THAT is no longer possible in windows 7. Its a loss especially for people who use multiple monitors. I mean come on -- motherboards nowdays can easily give you PCIe space for 3 sli/cf graphics cards allowing you to setup an array of six monitors (and that's just with normal GPUs not using DVI links) -- you do NOT want just one toolbar for that, you want toolbars accessible on those other monitors or you have a mouse traversal nightmare.

This aspect of the windows xp toolbar is gone entirely.

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A lot of people don't seem to realize the "Quick Launch" was just a folder name on the Hard Disk where the default Tool Bar contents was defined. Most people didn't realize apparently that you could have multiple totally different 'quick launch' bars defined and put all over the desktop.