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mike said:
I am using XP Home. I had an icon for my desktop in the Quick Launch
bar and lost it. I am sure I had something to do with that. My
questionis how do I get the desktop icon back in the Quick Launch bar.
Thanks for any and all help.
Create a text file in Notepad as follows:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop
Save it as Show Desktop.scf then drag it to the Quick launch bar.
T h a n k Y o u V E R Y much!
I have lost my Desktop icon a dozen times. I have gone so far as to
reformat, just to get it back, since I use it CONSTANTLY.
You just saved me a BOATload of trouble.
And NOW, since you two seem to be VERY aware of the "Quick Launch" bar
at the bottom of the screen (something MANY people don't even know
about, something *I* discovered QUITE by accident back in the 98
days...
PLEASE will someone describe to me the QUICKEST process of getting
that Quick Launch bar to "launch."
Let me describe PRECISELY what I mean...
When I have completed a new XP Pro install, about the 1st thing I do
is to begin dragging icons down to my Quick Launch. I use it 100 times
a day, LITERALLY. What I do is to right click, turn off the "lock
task bar", then I open the menu and turn ON the Quick Launch toolbar.
Next, I begin dragging the one line that appears, and I keep grabbing
the bar at different places and dragging, and grabbing someplace and
dragging until I FINALLY have a two-line bar. (one line should be for
the program icons. The OTHER (lower) line is for open windows.)
Now if you notice, the icons are at the left of the bar. But a this
point, you will drag icons onto the bar and notice a vertical line to
the right of the icons, and they "bunch" into a cluster that will then
double into two rows, possibly three rows, and it stays at the left.
What *I* do, is that I grab the cluster to the LEFT of the first
icon, so I get a 4-sided arrow, and I drag the "cluster" (menu) up
onto the desktop, then close it.
If the vertical line remains, I right click and open a new Quick
Launch bar. I continue doing this (2 or 3 times usually) until the
vertical line becomes horizontal, and the icons then run the width of
the screen, and you have a 2nd line (for open windows) under the
icons.
Question #1 Is there a quicker way to get that process done? I don't
want to have to drag the task bar 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 times to get it
to move up to 2 lines.
Keep in mind that it's unlocked! (or does it invisibly relock after I
unlocked it?)
Question #2 I used to have the open windows bar OVER the program
icons bar. Is there a way/ an easy way to select which bar (windows
or program icons) is on top?
I know for some this may sound trivial. I simply want the computer to
perform the way I want it to perform, EASILY, and not me have to adapt
and adjust to how it wants to work.
Thanks!
Tallahassee
