Windows 7 RTM - Enable the Quick Launch Bar

And if you use language bar, the quick launch bar is gone after restart

Quicklaunch keeps the Taskbar, Start Menu and Desktop clean. I couldn't live without it. But since installing Microsoft System Essentials Anti-virus clicking on Quick Launch produces a blank screen for 2-3 seconds while each of its 42 program and folder locations are being validated. This only happens the first type it used after a reboot but did not occur when previously using AVAST Anti-viurs.

I followed the instruction to enable Quick Launch. However, after each boot or restart of my PC, the Quick Launch toolbar disappeared. I found out that when I removed the Language toolbar from the taskbar, my Quick Launch stays enabled, although i noticed that the icons in there will sometimes be shuffled a little bit

Quicklaunch relocation was important if you have multiple monitors or huge monitors. It aided in reducing carpel tunnel by making task accessibility over large desktops faster and easier. Now if you have a huge monitor or a monitor array it takes forever to get anything done because of the mouse traversal time.

Frankly it is a huge pain in the hindquarters.

This is analogous to an MMO like world of warcraft suddenly deciding you only get one button bar instead of 24. Oh yeah you can stack the buttons now...but..only one bar.

This change gets a big F from me. The rest of Win7 seems to be fine. The loss of bar functionality and flexibility a big fail.

The scenario I have involves 4 monitors. The main monitor, a monitor above the main monitor and monitors to the right and to the left of the main monitor. I had a right side toolbar, a left side toolbar and a top side toolbar for different shortcuts and applications accessible to different monitors. This was great.

What we have now is terrible. For now I am making do with shortcuts on the desktop but that is a poor solution because 1: creates desktop clutter 2: cannot make desktop icons 'pop up' from hidden view like th toolbar could. Oh yeah, the loss of the toolbar is big.

As soon as 3rd party options that mimic the OLD functionality are available I will be getting them. Even if I have to pay for them.

I'd like to note that the quickbar seems tied to the profile (appearance, theme - rightclick on desktop and click to change personal preferences) you have saved it to, and the quick bar is more likely to stay if you save your appearance/theme after setting it up. I have the language bar on my toolbar as well and I need it there very much.

However, the quick bar will still disappear at random, but no longer on every startup. I too noted it is probably related to the language bar, because when I set the quick launch up anew after this, I often have two quick launch bars. In any case, the quick launch stayed where it was for 1 month after I saved it and as long as I don't touch the theme, so you might want to try this.



Also, that superbar functionality thing - it's all fine and awesome to say that this new superbar is the way to go and the quickbar is an old-fashioned thing, but the reality is that the quickbar, for many people, is simply the one and only way to go quick about windows, software, folders, internet, etc., especially as already mentioned for those with more screens. Compare it to the popularity of the Macintosh docking station if you want, just more managable and smaller - and what's more, more intuitive even for less experienced users, because I never had any trouble figuring out how the Quick Start works, while I after 3 months still don't know most of this new superbar and why on Earth it would ever be called that.