{"id":212,"date":"2010-01-08T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-16T15:32:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:32:27","slug":"add_quick_launch_toolbar_to_windows_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"How to add the Quick Launch Toolbar to the Windows 7 taskbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you used it a lot in Vista and XP, you might miss the Quick Launch toolbar in Windows 7 as it&#8217;s disabled by default. <\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s easy to re-enable it:<\/p>\n<p>Right mouse-click on any space on the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen, and select Toolbars&#8230; New Toolbar&#8230; as shown here:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wit.ncl.ac.uk\/blog_files\/Adele\/newToolbar.jpg\" alt=\"New Toolbar selection\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the folder field type (or copy and paste) the following: <\/p>\n<p>%userprofile%\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Quick Launch<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wit.ncl.ac.uk\/blog_files\/adele\/quicklaunchpath.jpg\" alt=\"userprofile%\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Quick Launch\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click Select Folder, and the Quick Launch bar will appear.  You can alter the way the Quick Launch bar looks by right-clicking on it and opting to hide\/show titles, enlarge\/shrink icons, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So, why isn&#8217;t there a Quick Launch bar in Windows 7 by default?  Because it&#8217;s been replaced by more interactive, intelligent Taskbar features that should, in theory, make the Quick Launch bar redundant. That&#8217;s the theory anyway&#8230;.  There&#8217;s nothing to stop you having both the old ways and new ways of doing things though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you used it a lot in Vista and XP, you might miss the Quick Launch toolbar in Windows 7 as it&#8217;s disabled by default. However, it&#8217;s easy to re-enable it: Right mouse-click on any space on the Taskbar at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}