Enable and Customize Quick Launch Toolbar on Windows 7

March 3rd, 2009

If you never used Windows 7 or Windows Vista,you may want to enable quick lanuch toolbar on Windows 7.Below will give you the instruction step by step to enable and customize quick lanuch toolbar on Windows 7.

1. Right-click the empty space on the Windows 7 taskbar then select Toolbars > New Toolbar.

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2.Enter the following path:

%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

3. Click on Select Folder

4.Now you should see the quick launch toolbar on the right of your taskbar.

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5.To customize your quick launch toolbar,right-click the Windows 7 Taskbar again and

unselect Lock the taskbar

6.Now you can drag and drop your quick lauch toolbar to the place you want

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Note: you can customize your quick launch toolbar’s appearance by right-click launch toolbar,see image bellow.

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7 Responses to “Enable and Customize Quick Launch Toolbar on Windows 7”

  1. Snoopy says:
    April 10, 2009 at 7:38 am

    Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. bcsachith says:
    May 8, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    Thanx very much
    by right clicking on the toolbar you can remove name too

  3. JORGE says:
    June 20, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    Great. Got it quickly

  4. JORGE says:
    June 20, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    It sure works. Thanks

  5. Hades says:
    September 14, 2010 at 2:45 am

    thanks… that windows 7 is really getting under my skin :(

  6. E. says:
    January 4, 2011 at 9:25 am

    Thanks for the good info… In someways, Win7 seems a productivity step-backwards – this info helped mitigate.

  7. Lis says:
    January 26, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    Is there a way to get the quicklaunch to stack horizontally underneath the regular toolbar, as opposed to left and right?

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