But that is two clicks, a right and a left.
With the Quick Launch bar, it's just one left click away. Hell I use
the Quick Launch bar more than the Start Menu, nevermind context menus,
just for saving time, and lessening the amout of moving my wrist and
fingers.
well yes it is 2 clicks. you sound like me. i actually hate the whole
start menu thing. always turn off the quick launch thing also. i wrote
this program,
http://users.adelphia.net/~thisnthat/menuhell/index.htm ,
which i pretty much use exclusively to launch programs. even less motion
than quick launch, as you middle-click wherever you are on the screen and
the menu pops up to start whatever you have set it up for. for a long
time, form Windows 3.1, i used a menu almost exactly like this called
Flash! Menu. which should still work in XP. at some point, i said, geez,
wouldn't it be nice if this had icons in the menu. that was why i wrote
my own.
in the graphic on the index page, it doesn't really look like that
anymore. that screenshot was taken when that program was intended to be a
full shell replacement. at the top WAS the task swapper, and if you click
on the red button at the top, the window changed to the system tray. the
version i use now i stripped out the system tray and at the top there is
now a clock, and a few other button's. three screen shots of the newer
version are in this zip file,
http://users.adelphia.net/
~thisnthat/menuhell/mh2.zip .
at the top in the clock there are 3 button's to click, 'T''D' & 'M'. so
for incredibly lazy people like me, these 3 button's make even less
motion necessary. middle-click to bring up the menu then click the 'T',
this is the taskswapper, which is presented to you in menu form. click
the 'D' button and it opens a 640 x 480 'mini-desktop' in the center of
the screen, which replicates the desktop of your computer. the mini-
desktop has full context menu support, you can double-click to launch,
and when you arrange thing's in the mini, they are also re-arranged on
the 'real' desktop, including deleting icons. the 'M' button is for
minimize, so whatever app is in the foreground when you invoke the menu,
clicking the 'M' minimizes it.
Unfortunately, there is no download there, as the coding was incomplete
when i decided to stop development. i have a package that will install,
but it will fail to run because a registry key will be missing that it
reads when it starts. it would take very little to fix though.
but on the other hand, i have started development on the next version of
this that will become a full shell replacement, it's just that at the
time i wrote the first one, there was an issue i ran across that i didn't
know how to deal with, which i can now accomodate.
i guess there are a lot of lazy people like me out there.
regards,
DanS
