Quick Launch Toolbar....

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Can any one till me how the quick Launch toolbar is actually created.

I can browse to the folder and see the contents of the QL folder.....but I
would like to understand how it's converted into the actual toolbar beside
the start button?

I have spent a good part of the day looking through many involved XP
books....ie XP Inside out....etc...but they only tell you how to swith it of
and on.

Please someone put me out of my misery.
Thanks
 
Can any one till me how the quick Launch toolbar is actually created.

I can browse to the folder and see the contents of the QL folder.....but I
would like to understand how it's converted into the actual toolbar beside
the start button?

I have spent a good part of the day looking through many involved XP
books....ie XP Inside out....etc...but they only tell you how to swith it of
and on.

Please someone put me out of my misery.
Thanks
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There's a key in the registry,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GrpConv\MapGroups

Under that key, Windows makes an entry named "Quick Launch" whose
value is the path to that folder you found. Whatever is in that folder
becomes a button on the QLT through the magic of programming.

If your computer has more than one user defined, each user gets
his/her own registry entry under

HKEY_USERS\<security identifier for this user>
\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GrpConv\MapGroups

and that entry is copied to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER area when that user
logs on.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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Thanks for the explanation Jay.
I wondered about registry entries, but didn't know where to start and
couldn't find anything that refered to the quick launch tool bar it in any of
the books I looked at.
Thanks
Dermot
 
Hi Jay
Can you advise a little further.........

I have navigated through the subtrees of HKEY_Users and HKEY_CURRENT_USERS
to all the MapGroup entries but don't find any reference to "Quick
Launch".....I do have the quick launch configured for myslf so expected to
find something that would indicate quick launch in HKEY_CURRENT_USER

I also tried using the "Find" feature on the registry and entred "Quick
Launch" but no results were returned.....I also tried looking up the Registry
Help....for MapGroups and Quick Launch but nothing was returned.

On Each of the MapGroup I do locate...there are two entries one indicates
Games........................Accessories / Games
Default

I expected to find a reference to Quick Launch somewhere........ (because I
am the only one of the four accounts I have setup on my computer using the
QLT)....under HKEY_USERS....I compared all entries and could find no
difference...

Any further help would be appreciated
Dermot
 
Hi Dermot,

I was misled by something I read in the MS KnowledgeBase, and since I did
find that entry in my (Windows XP) registry, I assumed it was right. But now
I've had a look at two other systems, one running Windows 2000 and one with
Windows 2003 Server, and neither of them has that entry.

It appears that the folder itself is "special" in the sense that Windows
looks for it and treats it specially when it finds it. Here are a couple
more articles to look at; they don't address the issue specifically but hint
at it:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190355 (under "Method 2" there's a list
of which folder is the Quick Launch for each version of Windows)

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/QLError.htm

At this point you've exhausted all I know or could find on the Net. You
might get better results asking in a Windows newsgroup instead of Word.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
 
Hi jay
Thanks for the reply and links.
You hit it on the nail...I was thinking about a word posting when it entered
my mind I( wanted to ask about "QLT"......this should have been posted as you
as in a Windows XP forum......I will repost
Thanks again for your help
Dermot
 
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