quick launch

Mr. Zhang couldn't wait to experience the brand new Windows 7, but suddenly found that the "Show Desktop" button that previously located on the Quick Launch in the lower left corner had disappeared. Has the new Windows cancelled this function? Mr. Zhang... More...

Provides step-by-step instructions to enable the Quick Launch bar in Windows 7. More...

Hi there, I have a weird problem. Just installed Windows 7 Professional on my laptop and it seems that I cannot resize the length of the quicklaunch in the taskbar. I've unlocked the taskbar, but the right toolbar sizing handle doesn't show. Any thought on this one? I have quite enough icons so...

I'm running a Win7 Pro x64 host on a fast machine with 16GB of memory, so I'm not suspecting the host. The guest VM is an XPsp3 with 3GB of memory assigned to it. I'm using Win 7's Virtual PC (not "XP Mode", this was an old VM I brought along from my old PC) to run this VM. I don't have...

I've only been using Win 7 for a week, after reluctantly installing it on a new PC. I'd have stuck with XP if only it was able to make use of more memory and could make use of all the features of my processor and SSD hard drive. So, Win 7 it had to be. At least I managed to avoid the torture of...

using Windows 7 for the first time... I have a problem with the taskbar.. I always set up the taskbar so it has two "floors"; on top I have open programs and on the bottom program icons (I hate going thru the 'start' menu to open programs... or minimizing all windows so I can see the desktop to...

Hi, I have some small questions. (Grey means solved) Can the key repeat speed of my keyboard be increased beyond the maximum of the slider? Is there a way to stop Windows Live Messenger to be active on my bar, even when the window isn't open, and instead move it to the active processes in the...

Hola, first post on here so if I havent followed a particular rule before posting I apologise. I've had this laptop for 4/5 months or so and its my first W7 platform. Occasionally I got a few error messages when I was logging in, saying that cannot load profile and sometimes it wouldn't...

Recently have been facing some issues with the shortcuts on desktop as well as quick launch, and some from the start menu. clicking these shortcuts, triggers the cursor to load briefly, but nothing happens. therefore, in order for me to run these programs i have to 'run as administrator', is...

I added the Quick Launch tool bar to my desktop machine and I can add icons by dragging them to it. Added Quick Launch tool bar to my laptop and CAN’T add icons by dragging, or adding to Quick Launch using Windows Explorer. Do you have any idea why? Below are details of the 2 machines...

This is getting to be a real PITA. I have a bunch of shortcuts on my desktop for applications that I use on a daily basis. (No I don't like pinning. Much prefer my Quick Launch.) I also have a bunch of shortcuts for some of the games that come with Win7 on the desktop. (Solitaire, Chess...

How do I activate this Jumplist system? At the moment right-clicking a programme on the quick-launch only gives the option to unpin; on the start-menu only Remove and Properties.

Hi, I am trying to register a shell context menu dll in Windows7. For that it needed explorer to be restarted. I use inno setup(installer script) and in that script I tried to restart the explorer as an Administrator. 1. Stop Explorer 2. Register the DLL 3. Start Explorer. When the...

In Windows XP I put a shortcut to WindowsExplorer on the desktop resp. the QuickLaunchBar and specified in the properties the following opening command: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,D:\work When I clicked on this shortcut WinExplorer opened with the pre-selected and auto-expanded...

Much to my surprise I cannot drag some *.exe programs to Taskbar/Quick launch Bar. For other programs it works. After releasing the mouse button with the dragged *.exe over Taskbar the icon is NOT added. Even if I press the shift button it does not work. How can I add/pin really all...

I have a HP 9290 hdX ez, installed all of Win 7 is okay, just has one problem, namely the finger when prokrenes volume work on the board but when I want to Treble or Bass pokrenes out constantly on display Failed while getting Increased Bass Level ... In fact I have tried at least twenty Driver...

When I take the Quick Launch bar off the taskbar, and then put it back on, all the icons are organized completely different. Is there any way to make it always stay the same?

Hi, I need a script to automatically; 1) add Quick Launch on the Toolbar and 2) set the desired Default format, Default input language, and the desired Input languages and keyboard services in Region and Language (Control Panel). The reason for this is because these settings are lost when you...

The Power User's Guide to the Windows 7 Taskbar Link Removed It seems like every week we learn about a new tip to enhance the Windows 7 taskbar, and it's hard to keep them all straight. Here's the complete power user's guide to tweaking and using your...

I use the remote desktop and other applications and I copied them to the menu bar so it is like the quick launch toolbar in XP. It is cool as I can have many applications or instances of them open and all I have to do is hover the mouse to see a ribbon of what is open. The screens are big...