Toolbars: Advice Please

[Dermot]

I am seeking to clear my desktop of items I use daily.

I am considering using Tololbars to organise the items in categories and
locate the toolbars around my desktop.

I am seeking to gain a clearer understanding of Toolbar behaviour.

When I right click the taskbar, and create a new toolbar everything is fine.

If I choose to remove the taskbar, I right click the taskbar, and uncheck
the toolbar.

Question 1
What happens to the toolbar when it is uncheck in the taskbar listing, can I
recheck it to enable....or am I permanently removing it and need to recreate
it.
.......this would annoy me as If I go to the trouble of creating a toolbars
and want to temporarily disable them.

Question 2
Can I only add folders to toolbars?
Can I create toolbars with Word and Excel documents on them instead of
folders?

Question 3
Any additional suggestion regarding Toolbars and heir use would be
appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

[Rey Santos]

Question 1

What happens to the toolbar when it is uncheck in the taskbar listing, can I
recheck it to enable....or am I permanently removing it and need to recreate
it.
......this would annoy me as If I go to the trouble of creating a toolbars
and want to temporarily disable them.

You can reenable them by putting the check mark.

Question 2

Can I only add folders to toolbars?
Can I create toolbars with Word and Excel documents on them instead of
folders?

Folders and Files

Question 3

Any additional suggestion regarding Toolbars and heir use would be
appreciated.

Maybe you want something like creating a toolbar on the taskbar to contain a
shortcut that would open MS Word and word files. First create a folder
perhaps on your Desktop naming it Microsoft Word. Copy the shortcut of MS
Word to the folder then put some word files on the same folder. Then,
rightclick the taskbar > Toolbars > New Toolbar > On the New Toolbar box
choose Microsoft Word folder > OK. The toolbar will appear on the right of
the taskbar. You can drag the toolbar to the desktop if the taskbar is not
locked and perhaps right click on it and choose autohide. The toolbar will
then hide and will appear when you hover the mouse cursor over it. The
program and and files opens at a single click rather doubleclick. When you
rightclick on the taskbar the tool is added to the toolbar list where you can
enable and disable it.

Find more information here
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kb...wsXP/AdminTips/Utilities/TaskbarToolbars.html

 

[Dermot]

Hi Rey,
Thanks for the answers and expanation.

I have created tollbars but when I disable them from the taskbar right click
sub menu, they are no longer listed on on it, so can't re-enable them. What
might I be overlooking?

 

[Dirk Schwarzmann]

Hi Dermot,

I am seeking to clear my desktop of items I use daily.

Good idea

I am considering using Tololbars to organise the items in categories and
locate the toolbars around my desktop.

I am seeking to gain a clearer understanding of Toolbar behaviour.

Your questions have been answered already, so I only would like to point
you to the freeware "Free LaunchBar" ( http://www.freelaunchbar.com/ ).
It´s highly configurable and has a big advantage over the built-in
toolbars since it lets you create submenus. Folders within a usual
toolbar, in contrast, will open up as new windows and have to closed
manually :-(

With the submenus of Free LaunchBar, you only need this one toolbar
because you can group items within a submenu. This should help keeping
your desktop tidy.

Have fun,
Dirk

 

[Dermot]

Hi Dirk,

Thanks for the link.

The only question that wasn't answered previously is this one...........

When I disable toolbars from the taskbar by right clicking and unchecking
the toolbar in the sub menu.............no problem here.

Question
The toolbar is no longer listed on the sub menu to recheck....., so can't
re-enable. them.....what am I overlooking?

Thanks in advance

 

[Dirk Schwarzmann]

Hi Dermot,

The only question that wasn't answered previously is this one...........

The toolbar is no longer listed on the sub menu to recheck....., so can't
re-enable. them.....what am I overlooking?

This is very strange and should not happen. Sorry, but I have no idea
why
it does :-(

Regards,
Dirk

 

[Bob I]

Your "toolbar" is actually a folder, just click "New Toolbar" and then
"pick" it again.

 

[Dermot]

Hi Bob,
Thanks for the explanation.

I did create the toolbar from a folder.

How do you create a toolbar that would remain an option within the taskbar,
contect menu to check or uncheck?

Thanks in advance

 

[Bob I]

You're welcome, I suspect you would need to do a bit of registry
editing, there is no utility native in XP to do it. You might try
TweakUI in MS Downloads, or someone else here may know.

 

[Dermot]

Hi Bob,
Thanks again
Cheers
Dermot

You're welcome, I suspect you would need to do a bit of registry
editing, there is no utility native in XP to do it. You might try
TweakUI in MS Downloads, or someone else here may know.