Windows 7 has surpassed Vista in almost every way. It is faster, sleeker and more reliable. But their are a few features that missing people are missing. These features are included in the Windows 7 but are not available in the default settings and customizations.
One of them is the ‘Quick Launch’ Toolbar. This toolbar has been their in Windows for a long time. In Windows 7 there is an absolutely new taskbar with the ‘Pin’ feature. So, the option for Quick Launch Bar has not been included the ‘Toolbars’ menu. Here is how to add the Quick Launch Bar in Windows 7:
- Firstly, right click on the Taskbar and navigate to- Toolbars > New toolbar…
- Now copy and paste “%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch”, without quotes in the folder selection dialog and click on ‘Select Folder’.
- Now again right click on the Taskbar and disable the ‘Lock the taskbar’ option. We are doing this in order to customize the Quick launch bar.
- You might have notices that the quick launch bar has a title ‘Quick Launch’ and text along with the icons. To remove them right click on the ‘Quick Launch’ and disable the ‘Show Text’ and ‘Show title’ options.
- Now drag and drop the new ‘Quick Launch’ toolbar anywhere over the Task bar using the dividers.
- But don’t forget to turn on the ‘Lock the taskbar’ option again otherwise the dividers will occupy space and will make it look ugly.
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Pretty cool….thanks for the tutorial..!