Desktop+Toolbars

Desktop Toolbars

If you are similar to myself you feel frustrated when you have 3 or 4 programs open and need to open another. This involves minimizing those which are open in order to see the Icons on the Desktop, This is annoying. Would you like a simple solution? Make a new toolbar on the right-hand side of the screen which can hold all your favourite programs. Here is how:-

First, right click on the windows toolbar on the bottom of your screen. You will get a little menu. Select Toolbars Another menu will slide out. Left click on “ New Toolbar ”. This gives you a window where we can create your toolbar.



Next, left click once on the word “ desktop ”, so it is highlighted. Then click the button “ New Folder ”. Give the new folder the name you want for your toolbar. e..g. My Shortcuts. Click OK.

The window will close and you will notice a new folder has been placed on the desktop with whatever name you gave it. Left click-and-drag this folder to the right-hand edge of your screen. When you release the mouse button, the folder will magically become a toolbar.

Sadly it is an empty toolbar. Now that we have created the toolbar, all we need to do is to put some shortcuts in it.

To do this, just drag the icons you want from your desktop into the toolbar. If you want some for the start menu, just find them in there and drag them over too.

All right, now you have full toolbar, but it won't go away. To customise this Right click the name on the top of the toolbar. A menu will be displayed. To make the toolbar disappear when your mouse is not over it click on “ Auto-Hide ”, to place a tick/check in it. Don’t like it? Open this menu again and click on “ Always on Top ” This will allow the toolbar to be displayed over the windows you are using.

With this menu you can also change the view, whether the title is displayed, and if you want text with the icons.



To further enhance the use of this tip you may want to create more toolbars (one for each side of your monitor.) This is great for organization. One toolbars for documents, games, and Microsoft Office. The only problem is that with multiple toolbars containing lots of icons the start-up time is slightly longer. However, in my opinion the delay is a small price to pay

