Can't move toolbars out of taskbar???

[Guest]

Hi people,

I am new to vista, and i'd like to add toolbars (by right clicking on
taskbar, toolbars, new toolbar), I pick a directory, the new toolbar appears,
and then i try to move it out of the taskbar, with no success!!!
I used to do it with XP, in order to stick it on a side of my second screen.
Do you have any clue???

Thanks!!!

PS : I can move my new toolbar inside of the taskbar, it ain't locked.
PS2 : I'm french, so descriptions may be approximative (and my vista is in
french too).

 

[Ian Betts]

Tool bars can be opened or closed by right clicking in the Quick Launch Bar
but the are then in the QLB. You cannot drag them onto your desktop in Vista
or in XP.

 

[ThePro]

Wrong.

You could in XP, you can't in Vista.

ThePro

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your answer, ThePro.
But is this a "It's impossible in vista" or you simply don't know?
I'm really disapointed without this feature, I used to have a big taskbar on
theright of my screen with lots of shortcuts, I'm missing it!!!!
Any idea on how to enable this? (maybe via registry???)

Thank again

 

[ThePro]

Thanks for your answer, ThePro.
But is this a "It's impossible in vista" or you simply don't know?

I know it's impossible without 3rd party software.

Je sais que ce n'est pas possible sans logiciel tiers. ;-)

ThePro

 

[Ian Betts]

I an writing this in XP. You cannot move a Tool bar from the quick launch
bar except for languages. Still you can make short cuts on your desktop of
anything so go that route,

 

[Dave Cox]

I an writing this in XP. You cannot move a Tool bar from the quick
launch bar except for languages. Still you can make short cuts on
your desktop of anything so go that route,

There is a hack to create new tool bars that will attach to the top or
sides of your screen. (they will not look like the task bar but all the
functions of a taskbar are there)

Make a new folder on your desktop give it a name.

Drag your new folder to the edge of your screen, it will change into a
toolbar.

Delete the folder you created that is on the desktop.

Now your new tool bar is functional and ready to use as a standard
toolbar.

 

[ThePro]

I an writing this in XP. You cannot move a Tool bar from the quick launch
bar except for languages. Still you can make short cuts on your desktop of
anything so go that route,

Definitively wrong. In XP, you can have your task bar along the left hand
side of the screen and a tool bar (e.g. address) at the bottom.

ThePro

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your interest in this discussion, ThePro and Ian.
Here is what I have under XP:
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/156/taskbareditedde9.jpg
made either with right-click, toolbars, etc... or by drag'n dropping folders
to the edge of the screen, you're right Ian.
So I'll try tomorrow the drag'n drop method on vista, may this work???

ThePro, really good french trad' for "third party software" ;-)

Thanks again!!

 

[Guest]

Hi!
That's finally right, the drag'n drop method effectively works under vista!
I makes bigger bars than under XP, but let's see if it's ever fonctionnal....

Thanks for your help!!!!

 

[ThePro]

It works for shortcuts or folders, but not for the address bar, Quick
Launch, etc.

BTW I do speak french.

ThePro

 

[Eric Ng]

To make a floating toolbar in Vista, sumply drag a folder to the edge of the
desktop, then drag it to the middle of the desktop.

 

[Rommy]

Ian,

As The Pro said you absolutely CAN make new toolbars and move them out of
the Taskbar area to any other side of the screen. I have done that on
multiple pc's. However, as of this writing I still have not figured out the
Vista problem. Figures that Microsoft's wisdom is such that they take that
feature away. Why do I need new toolbars clogging up the Taskbar? Answer
is I DONT.

 

[Rommy]

Dave, and all else following this thread. The folder trick works to create
a toolbar along the edge, however, if you then delete the source folder from
the desktop it also takes any shortcuts you dragged to the new
toolbar/folder. Instead, what I do is create folder in My Document, or
Documents in Vista, called My Toolbars. I then create subfolders in there
for each type of toolbar I want, such as Games, or Programs, Email, etc.
Now, drag each one of those folders to the edge of the screen and there will
be your toolbar. You can drag other folders to the same edge (ok, I have not
actually tried this yet, but it worked in XP) or other edges of the screen .
Now you don't have the source folder floating around the desktop. Finally,
just customize the toolbar such as Show Title or Icon text, or autohide.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Ian,

As The Pro said you absolutely CAN make new toolbars and move them out of
the Taskbar area to any other side of the screen. I have done that on
multiple pc's. However, as of this writing I still have not figured out
the
Vista problem. Figures that Microsoft's wisdom is such that they take
that
feature away. Why do I need new toolbars clogging up the Taskbar?
Answer
is I DONT.

Yes it can be done. I did it on one Vista machine by unlocking the Taskbar
and dragging QuickLaunch to the left edge. On a second machine I had to
make a copy of the QuickLaunch folder, put that on the Taskbar and then drag
that one. I have no idea why the two were different. The first was
Ultimate and the second was Business.