>- Desktop
>- Start button
>- Application bar
>- User-added toolbar(s) including predefined ones such as the Quick
>Launch toolbar.
>- Icon tray area.
>
>Except for Desktop, Start button and Icon tray area, the tab order is
>determined by the visibility of each control group. e.g.: (Quick
>Launch, Application bar) or (User toolbar 1, Application bar, User
>toolbar 2).
>
>The LEFT/RIGHT key will move the focus to the next/previous button/
>icon of a control group. The MENU key will bring-up the popup menu for
>that button/icon - same as mouse right-clicking. The SPACEBAR in an
>Application button will switch to that application window - similar to
>ALT-TAB.
>
>When focusing the ">>" button, its popup menu will appear immediately.
>Press the ESCAPE key to close the popup menu if you want to move the
>focus to other control.

>On Nov 17, 1:46 am, Terry Pinnell <terrypinDEL***@THESEdial.pipex.com>
>wrote:
>> Took a while for me to realise that the reason this wasn't working for
>> me was because I'd recently locked my taskbar ;-)
>
>It works even though the taskbar is locked (not resizeable). Mine is
>locked too, and it works. Once you press the WIN-B shortcut key, there
>will be a box frame surrounding the first icon of the icon tray. If
>the icon is not a rectangle-shaped and doesn't use the whole icon
>image area (e.g. a circle-shaped icon), you can easily spot it.
>
>> As you say, Win-b followed by Shift+Tab pops up the toolbar to the
>> immediate left of the system tray. But here unfortunately that's
>> 'Desktop >>', not 'ALL >>' as I want, as you see from this screenshot:http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s247/terrypin999/Toolbar-1.jpg
>
>Well, you'll have to press a series of keys to reach the "ALL" toolbar
>from the icon tray - moving the focus from one to another until you
>reach the toolbar you wanted (see next answer).
>
>> I may have missed something here, as I seem unable to get from the
>> displayed Desktop toolbar to my ALL toolbar. ESC closes it. But then
>> LeftArrow (or RightArrow for that matter) restores it again.
>
>The LEFT/RIGHT arrow will move the focus within a group control where
>in this case, the items within a toolbar. To focus your "ALL" toolbar
>after you pressed the WIN-B key:
>
>1. Press SHIFT-TAB to move the focus to the "Desktop" toolbar and
>automatically popup its menu.
>2. Press ESC to close the popup menu.
>3. Press SHIFT-TAB to move the focus to the "ALL" toolbar and
>automatically popup its menu.
>
>Note that you can't use TAB or SHIFT-TAB if a popup menu is displayed,
>so you can't skip the step #2 above.
>
>> It seems that the order of Desktop and ALL cannot be switched?
>
>Switched? Do you mean by "exchange place"? If that is so, then yes it
>can. Just drag the "ALL" toolbar title (the "ALL" text area) to the
>right side of the "Desktop" toolbar then drop it. I guess you want to
>make your "ALL" toolbar quicker to access via keyboard by asking this?
>
>> I could of course remove the Desktop toolbar. But as discussed in the
>> recent thread 'Are there TWO Desktops?' I rather need it now that I've
>> stopped displaying icons on my desktop screen. Adding it a s a
>> shortcut to ALL is another possibility, although that's an extra click
>> and also brings it up as a permanent window.
>
>Not just the desktop. The Start Menu also behaves the same except it
>sorts the items properly.

"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDEL***@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:g64sh4dsmbbqp7j195g4f5ufgcapgikumm@4ax.com...
> I've added a new toolbar to the XP Taskbar. I display its menu by
> left-clicking '>>'. Is it possible to do that with
> keystrokes instead, which would be faster?
>
> --
> Terry, East Grinstead, UK