Recently we told you how to get good ol' "Show Desktop" icon back in Windows 7:
How to Get the Good Old “Show Desktop” Feature Back in Windows 7?
Now we;ll tell you how to get Quick Launch toolbar back in Windows 7 Taskbar:
1. Right-click on Taskbar and select "Toolbars -> New toolbar...".
2. It'll open Browse dialog box. Now paste following string in the "Folder:" text box:
%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
Press Enter and click on "Select folder" button.
3. It'll immediately add Quick Launch toolbar to Taskbar.
4. Now right-click on Taskbar and uncheck "Lock the taskbar" option.
5. You'll see a placeholder to drag the Quick Launch toolbar.
6. Right-click on the toolbar placeholder and uncheck "Show Title" and "Show Text" options.
7. If you want to increase the icon size, right-click on the toolbar placeholder and enable "View -> Large Icons" option.
8. Drag-n-drop this toolbar to the left of Taskbar.
9. That's it. You have the good ol' "Quick Launch" toolbar back. Now you can copy all desired program shortcuts in this new folder and they'll appear in Windows 7 Taskbar:
This article was posted in Windows 7.
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Astitva
its good but of no use//.......
u can easily pin shotcuts to the taskbar then why this
Marc
Awesome... I have been looking everywhere to find how to do this. Thank you. I know people say "but you don't need this anymore" but I just didn't like how "pinning" things to the taskbar worked. You could end up having a shortcut in the middle of the taskbar right in the middle of a bunch of running apps. That's just weird
This is perfect, thanks again.
person
I don't know why you would want to have the quick launch back... I guess that is just some people......
Robert
You can also use the original Quick Launch folder instead, they is still there
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
Sam_VDC
Why people want the old Quick Launch?
Because they want to organize and delete all their messy shortcuts off the desktop.
Toorop
Hi,
nice tip, but I have a strange problem. Anytime I shut down win7 and restart it, the newly created quick launch bar disappears, I have to add it again (New Toolbar ...) with every new win7 start.
Any solution?
Thx in advance!
VG
^^ Open regedit and goto:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
In right-side pane, make sure "NoSaveSettings" key doesnt exist. If you find it, delete it.
Toorop
I cant reach Explorer folder, Policies is empty, no more subdirectory.
Thx for your time!
VG
^^ Please check the same in following keys as well:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_USERS\.default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Toorop
Hmm, cannot reach the end of your routes again.
1) Explorer is missing
2) Policies is missing
Searched it in Edit / Find ... - NoSaveSettings - and it didn't find anything.