Posts Tagged “Launcher”

Apr 26 2008

Tip – Advanced Windows XP Toolbars – Amaze Yourself & Your Co-workers – Part 2

Posted by: Barry Cleave in Hints & Tips, Windows OS, tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

What Is This All About?

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Yesterday I wrote about the basic things you can do with the Windows Toolbar functionality in the taskbar. Today will tell you about some clever little tips and tricks that allows you to use toolbars to help you get more productive and generally make your computing life a little easie

Today will show you how you can go from this:

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to this:

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and a lot more!

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Apr 24 2008

Tip – Advanced Windows XP Toolbars – Amaze Yourself & Your Co-workers – Part 1

Posted by: Barry Cleave in Hints & Tips, Windows OS, tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

What Is This All About?

Going from this:

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to this:

(Click on screenshots to show full size/enlarged)

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(OK ignore the wallpaper in terms of this post)

I am sure everyone is familiar with the Windows Quick Launch Toolbar as part of the Taskbar. Dragging and dropping new shortcuts to it, or having them automatically installed as part of setting up a new program. Perhaps even dragging and dropping the icons in the Quick Launch area to get them into some sort of practical order. If you are like me it’s soon full of icons and you can’t remember what program they start so you rely on hovering the mouse cursor to get the tooltip. My own experience is that the tooltips don’t always work or take for ever to appear and it all becomes very frustrating. You want to show text and you can but then there isn’t enough space to get everything in!

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