Displaying a folder's contents on the taskbar is an old but good function of Windows.
It is almost as useful as the quick launch part of the taskbar which is hidden by default, therefore many users simply ignore its existence.
Quickly locating some frequently accessed shortcuts or documents and executing them, is a critical task for any operating system. From my experience, most casual users are usually creating shortcuts on their desktops. While this is a quick and easy solution, it just clutters their desktops making it impossible to locate something after some time of use.
Besides using specially designed software for launching shortcuts you can use the classic taskbar solution.
Practically, you can create a personal start menu containing all your important shortcuts and documents.
Setting it up is very easy:
* First of all, create a new folder in a convenient location and copy some important shortcuts in it.
* You can also create subfolders to better organize them and optionally assign a different icon for each subfolder.
* Right click on an empty portion of the sidebar
* Select Toolbars>New Toolbar from the popup menu
* Select the created folder when prompted and press OK.
You will notice a new part created at the end of your taskbar. Pressing the little arrow next to it will expand the contents of the folder in a menu view. You can execute an item without having to minimize all open windows anymore.
Believe it or not this is still the most important start menu in my computer!
It is almost as useful as the quick launch part of the taskbar which is hidden by default, therefore many users simply ignore its existence.
Quickly locating some frequently accessed shortcuts or documents and executing them, is a critical task for any operating system. From my experience, most casual users are usually creating shortcuts on their desktops. While this is a quick and easy solution, it just clutters their desktops making it impossible to locate something after some time of use.
Besides using specially designed software for launching shortcuts you can use the classic taskbar solution.
Practically, you can create a personal start menu containing all your important shortcuts and documents.
Setting it up is very easy:
* First of all, create a new folder in a convenient location and copy some important shortcuts in it.
* You can also create subfolders to better organize them and optionally assign a different icon for each subfolder.
* Right click on an empty portion of the sidebar
* Select Toolbars>New Toolbar from the popup menu
* Select the created folder when prompted and press OK.
You will notice a new part created at the end of your taskbar. Pressing the little arrow next to it will expand the contents of the folder in a menu view. You can execute an item without having to minimize all open windows anymore.
Believe it or not this is still the most important start menu in my computer!
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