Hi,
When I try to activate the quick launch toolbar a get the following error:
Cannot create toolbar.
The following MSKB:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240133/en-us
says to create a "Quick Launch" folder a a specific plays. Actually it
suggests two possibilitys.
Anyway I can't find any of the two paths! I have no Application Data-folder
nor a profiles-folder in c:\windows
I have show hidden files on! I'm using WINXP SP2 as a domain Admin user.
Don't know about "creating a folder.
How I create the Quick Launch toolbar is:
1 right click on the blue horizontal bar at the bottom of
the screen.
2 On the popup menu, look for
"Lock the Taskbar" or "Unlock the Taskbar"
click it
3. Right click on the blue horizontal bar at the bottom of
the screen.
4. On the popup menu, Look for "Toolbars"
5. Click on Toolbars,
6. Look for Quick Launch and click it
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This is the tricky part, and I've found no "EASY" way to
do it.
7 Raise and lower the mouse pointer SLOWLY over the top edge
of the horizontal blue bar at the bottom of the screen. When
you see the double-headed arrow,
8 click and drag up.
It may happen the 1st time, it may happen the 10th time (I
haven't found an easy way to do this task.
But the objective is to raise the blue bar until it is
"double-height". And you will want to click and drag back
and forth from the center of the bar left and right,
repeatedly until-- wa la! -- the task bar drags up and you
have a two-line high task bar.
You will now see several icons (explorer, your Windows Media
Player, and your Show Desktop icon ) at the far left of the
Quick Launch taskbar you have just created.
Now THIS is also tricky.
9 You want to reach down and to the left, BELOW the icon
farthest to the left. Reach down SLOWLY until you get a
4-headed arrow.
10 When you get the 4-headed arrow, click and drag those
icons (the Quick Launch Menu icons) up onto the desktop well
away from the bar.
Once you have the menu above the task bar, in a box all by
themselves, turn them off with the red x.
Look at the double-line high bar. You will have NO line ON
THE BAR, or there will be a "shadow" of a horizontal line
all the way across the screen. (this shadow of a line
indicates you will now have 2 (Two) task bars. One will be
for your icons. The 2nd will show you how many open windows
you have. VERY handy.)
Either way, right click on the task bar and activate the
Quick Launch bar again.
If You had the shadow line across the screen, you will now
have a one-line Quick launch menu horizontal across the
bottom of your screen. As you drag important programs down
onto it, you will get a vertical cursor | that indicates
where you are putting your icons.
My Quick Launch bar has roughly 30 icons on it.
If you Don't get that "shadow line', continue to drag the
quick launch cluster up on the desktop and turning them off
and reactivating the Quick Launch toolbar (right clicking
the blue bar) until you get the shadow line.
I've had to do this procedure half-a-dozen times before I
got my Quick Launch bar to go totally across the screen.
And I sure with someone had a QUICKER, EASIER way. But I've
never had it take more than 2 or 3 minutes to accomplish
this, and I find myself clicking on the Quick Launch icons a
hundred times a day.
Just for a hint for those who are wondering what I do with
those two bars and all those icons and windows.
From the left (program icons),
ie
Windows Media Player
Scanner
Show Desktop
Drive A
Drive C
Drive I (external hdd)
Drive J (external hdd)
Drive E (internal burner)
Drive F (external usb burner)
control panel
LView ( jpg editor/ screen capture)
Notepad
Write (Word 6)
Word 97
Agent (chat A)
RegCleaner
Agent (chat B)
Agent (chat C)
My BOTTOM task bar is
Disk defrag
Agent
IE
IE
IE
IE
IE
Agent
Ain't multi-tasking wonderful?
And with 2 task bars down there, i can monitor everything
simultaneously. My Quick Launch is "Always on top."
Tallahassee
