Quantcast
Subscribe to magazine

Blogs

    Windows Tips

  • Living with Windows is a whole lot easier with the tips, tools, and techniques from Contributing Editor Scott Dunn's bottomless bag of tricks.
  • Subscribe to this blog

Windows Tips: Windows' Hidden Image Viewer

Scott Dunn

Windows Toolbox

Enhance Windows' Quick Launch With Free Launch Bar

Windows' Quick Launch toolbar (right-click the taskbar and choose Toolbars,Quick Launch if you don't see it) lets you create a shortcut by dragging an application, document, or folder from Explorer or any folder window to the toolbar. If you add too many shortcuts, however, Quick Launch becomes so cluttered it's nearly useless. TrueSoft's Free Launch Bar adds many useful features that Quick Launch lacks. For example, the free program adds folders to the toolbar whose contents appear as highly customizable menus when you click them. (You can do this without Free Launch Bar, but only if you make the toolbar so small that the folders appear in a pop-up menu when you click the >> symbol.) And for even more functionality, you can spend $20 to get TrueSoft's True Launch Bar, which comes with plug-ins that display system info, weather forecasts, and more.

Send Windows-related questions and tips to scott_dunn@pcworld.com. We pay $50 for published items. Click here for more Windows Tips. Scott Dunn is a contributing editor for PC World.

  • Recommend this story?
  • 0 Yes
    0 No

Featured APC Accessories

  • APC Back-UPS ES Safeguards your equipment from damaging surges and spikes that travel along your utility & data lines.
  • APC SurgeArrest Performance Highest level of protection for your professional computers, electronics and connected devices, as well as provides surge protection.

Deal Breakers

Special Offers for PC World Users

Focus on Personal Productivitysponsored by Microsoft

  • Personal Finance 2.0 These free and fee-based Web services not only aggregate data from your online bank accounts, they give you tools for managing your money.
  • High-Tech Travel Tips Plenty of stories provide advice for elite mobile professionals. But what about you, the unproductive traveler?

People who read this also read:

All PC World Blogs

  • Lenovo Laptop Showcase Find out how Lenovo IdeaPads and Thinkpads balance performance and portability. Visit the Lenovo Resource Center for more info...

Sponsored Links