XP Quick Launch "bar" to look like Win 2K

16 May 2009 4:40 AM

Fred Holmes

On the Windows 2K machines that I have used, the Quick Launch icons
are arrayed on the top row of a multiple-row taskbar. The row extends
the full width of the taskbar, except for the Start button on the left
and the Systray on the right. How can I get the XP taskbar to display
the Quick Launch icons this way?

On my XP taskbar, the Quick Lauch icons are displayed in a short width
segment of the full height of the multiple-row taskbar. The segment is
located on the left side of the taskbar, just to the right of the
Start button. I don't like this arrangement.

If there is no "handle" to change it except a direct registry hack
(which I am willing to do), is there some utility such as TweakI that
will perfrom the registry hack via a selection on a gui dialog??

Thanks for any help.

Fred Holmes

16 May 2009 1:44 PM

Ken Blake, MVP

On Sat, 16 May 2009 00:40:01 -0400, Fred Holmes <f**@his.com> wrote:

> On the Windows 2K machines that I have used, the Quick Launch icons
> are arrayed on the top row of a multiple-row taskbar. The row extends
> the full width of the taskbar, except for the Start button on the left
> and the Systray on the right. How can I get the XP taskbar to display
> the Quick Launch icons this way?

There is a vertical bar at the right end (if the task bar is at the
bottom of the screen) of the Quick Launch bar. Drag that line to the
left or right to change the size of the Quick Launch bar.

If the bar isn't there, first right-click the Task Bar, and uncheck
"Lock the Task Bar."

> On my XP taskbar, the Quick Lauch icons are displayed in a short width
> segment of the full height of the multiple-row taskbar. The segment is
> located on the left side of the taskbar, just to the right of the
> Start button. I don't like this arrangement.
>
> If there is no "handle" to change it except a direct registry hack
> (which I am willing to do), is there some utility such as TweakI that
> will perfrom the registry hack via a selection on a gui dialog??
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Fred Holmes

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17 May 2009 11:50 PM

Fred Holmes

Your suggestion doesn't seem to be what I am looking for. I know how
to do what you suggest. All that does (for me) is to widen the Quick
Launch "rectangle" which is the full height of the (multiple row)
Taskbar. What I want the Quick Launch area to be is to be a single
(the top) row of the multiple-row Taskbar, and to expand to a second
row if the full-width top row becomes full of Quick Launch icons.

My Taskbar is, e.g., six rows high and set on autohide so I don't see
it at all unless I am actually using it.

Thanks,

Fred Holmes

On Sat, 16 May 2009 06:44:56 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kbl***@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:

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>On Sat, 16 May 2009 00:40:01 -0400, Fred Holmes <f**@his.com> wrote:
>
>> On the Windows 2K machines that I have used, the Quick Launch icons
>> are arrayed on the top row of a multiple-row taskbar. The row extends
>> the full width of the taskbar, except for the Start button on the left
>> and the Systray on the right. How can I get the XP taskbar to display
>> the Quick Launch icons this way?
>
>
>
>There is a vertical bar at the right end (if the task bar is at the
>bottom of the screen) of the Quick Launch bar. Drag that line to the
>left or right to change the size of the Quick Launch bar.
>
>If the bar isn't there, first right-click the Task Bar, and uncheck
>"Lock the Task Bar."
>
>
>> On my XP taskbar, the Quick Lauch icons are displayed in a short width
>> segment of the full height of the multiple-row taskbar. The segment is
>> located on the left side of the taskbar, just to the right of the
>> Start button. I don't like this arrangement.
>>
>> If there is no "handle" to change it except a direct registry hack
>> (which I am willing to do), is there some utility such as TweakI that
>> will perfrom the registry hack via a selection on a gui dialog??
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Fred Holmes

18 May 2009 1:08 AM

Shenan Stanley

Fred Holmes wrote:

> Your suggestion doesn't seem to be what I am looking for. I know
> how to do what you suggest. All that does (for me) is to widen the
> Quick Launch "rectangle" which is the full height of the (multiple
> row) Taskbar. What I want the Quick Launch area to be is to be a
> single (the top) row of the multiple-row Taskbar, and to expand to
> a second row if the full-width top row becomes full of Quick Launch
> icons.
>
> My Taskbar is, e.g., six rows high and set on autohide so I don't
> see it at all unless I am actually using it.

Keep manipulating the bar - you'll figure it out...

You want something similar to this:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/RNdnYhgBSv0dCZ0i1YDJKw?feat=directlink
??

I'm sure with some manipulation, you can get what you want to happen.

Pull downwards...

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28 May 2009 4:52 PM

shawn

Mine does what you want by using the last posters suggestion of
"manipulation".

One line of the taskbar shows QuickLaunch, the second line of the taskbar
shows open programs.

I don't use QuickLaunch, so I fooled around a bit and here's what I found.

Right click taskbar and goto Toolbars then QuickLaunch to turn it off. Now
make your taskbar not one row high, but two. Then right click and goto
Toolbars again and QuickLaunch to turn it back on.

For me that puts a whole line of QuickLaunch on top and on bottom the
programs I have open.

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"Fred Holmes" <f**@his.com> wrote in message
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> On the Windows 2K machines that I have used, the Quick Launch icons
> are arrayed on the top row of a multiple-row taskbar. The row extends
> the full width of the taskbar, except for the Start button on the left
> and the Systray on the right. How can I get the XP taskbar to display
> the Quick Launch icons this way?
>
> On my XP taskbar, the Quick Lauch icons are displayed in a short width
> segment of the full height of the multiple-row taskbar. The segment is
> located on the left side of the taskbar, just to the right of the
> Start button. I don't like this arrangement.
>
> If there is no "handle" to change it except a direct registry hack
> (which I am willing to do), is there some utility such as TweakI that
> will perfrom the registry hack via a selection on a gui dialog??
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Fred Holmes