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Tip for window 7 user's, disappearing and recovering windows taskbar and toolbar including with firefox icon and start button. You can add Toolbars to your taskbar area. A toolbar is a list of shortcuts to favourite areas of your computers. Right click the Taskbar to see the following menu: Select Toolbars to see the built-in Windows 7 ones: As you can see, there are entries for Address, Links, PowerDVD 8, Desktop, and New toolbar.
In a previous TR Dojo Challenge question, I asked TechRepublic members TR Dojo Challenge: How do you enable the Quick Launch toolbar on Windows 7? And several members were quick to answer the call. Here are the steps.
- Right click on an empty space on the Windows 7 taskbar and make sure 'Lock the taskbar' is NOT checked. This will allow us to move the Quick Launch bar once we reactivate it.
- Right click on an empty space on the Windows 7 taskbar and from the resulting Context Menu, click Toolbars and then New Toolbar.
- When the New Toolbar - Choose a folder window appears, paste the following path into the location bar:
- Once you're certain that the path shows AppData | Roaming | Microsoft | Internet Explorer | Quick Launch, click Select Folder.The Quick Launch toolbar will now appear on the Windows 7 taskbar, but it will be on the right side of the screen next to the System Tray. Let's move it back to the left side where the toolbar should be.
- Click on the left edge (dotted lines) of the new Quick Launch toolbar, and drag it over to the left as far as it will go.
- To remove the text labels shown on the Quick Launch toolbar, right-click on the left edge of the toolbar (dotted lines) and from the resulting Context Menu, uncheck both 'Show Text and 'Show Title. At this point, the Quick Launch toolbar looks like it did in Windows XP and Vista, but it's still on the wrong side of the taskbar.
- Click and drag the left edge of the regular Windows taskbar toolbar (dotted lines to the right of the Start button) to the left of the taskbar, over the new Quick Launch toolbar. This will move the main area of the taskbar to the right of your new Quick Launch bar and place the Quick Launch bar next to the Start button. Stop when both toolbars are the size you want.
- You can now drag and drop your favorite applications or shortcuts onto the new Quick Launch toolbar and 'unpin' the default applications from the regular taskbar.
- Once you finished adding things to the Quick Launch toolbar, right-click a blank space on the taskbar and click 'Lock the taskbar'.
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I also like to enable 'Use small icons' under the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties menu.
With the new Quick Launch toolbar in place, no applications 'pinned' to the regular taskbar, small icons in use, and the taskbar locked, my Desktop is just the way I like it.
And the TechRepublic swag goes to..
This week's coffee mugs and laptop stickers to ak87, who was first to describe the process through Step 5, robert.johnson2, who provided the first complete answer, and to Samuel Leung, who submitted a well-written answer and links to a YouTube video that demonstrates the process.
Thanks to everyone who submitted an answer.
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Here's how you can make the Windows 7 Taskbar disappear or appear automatically. 1. Click the Start button and search for 'taskbar' in the search field. 2. Click 'Auto-hide the taskbar' in the results. 3. When you see the Taskbar menu appear, click the Autohide the Taskbar checkbox. 4. Your Taskbar will disappear. You can make it reappear by moving your mouse cursor down to the Taskbar area. Once you've touched the Taskbar area, it will automatically popup.It can be very helpful to get the Taskbar out of the way when you aren't using it.
For more, see the original article at the link below.
Show Menu Bar In File Explorer Windows 7
Show or Hide the Taskbar | How 7 Works