
At the bottom of the Explorer window, click the Select Folder button. %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch Once the Explorer window opens, in the address bar at the top of the window, copy and paste the following folder path:. In the pop-up menu, select Toolbars > New Toolbar. Right-click an empty portion of the Windows taskbar. If you prefer the Windows Quick Launch feature over pinning applications to the taskbar, you can still get that feature back by following the steps below. Pinning an application to the taskbar eliminates the need for the Quick Launch section found in previous versions of Windows. Microsoft introduced the ability to pin applications to the taskbar in Windows 7 and continued that feature with Windows 8 and Windows 10. Enabling the Windows Quick Launch in Windows 7, 8, 10 The Quick Launch area can be disabled or enabled at any time, and program shortcuts can be added or removed when desired. For these displays, select from Always, hide labels, When taskbar is full, and Never.The Windows Quick Launch feature allows users to add shortcuts to their favorite programs right next to the Start menu button for quick and easy access. If you use multiple displays, you can make a different choice for your extra displays. Select Taskbar settings > Multiple Displays > Combine taskbar buttons on other taskbars. As more apps and windows open, buttons get smaller, and eventually the buttons will scroll.
This setting shows each window as an individual, labeled button and never combines them, no matter how many windows are open. Select the button to see a list of the windows that are open. When the taskbar becomes crowded, apps with multiple open windows collapse into a single app button. This setting shows each window as an individual, labeled button. Each app appears as a single, unlabeled button, even when multiple windows for that app are open. If you want to change how taskbar buttons group together, press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar, select Taskbar settings > Combine taskbar buttons and then select from the list:Īlways, hide labels. By default, all open files from the same app are always grouped together, even if you didn’t open them in succession.
You might want to choose how taskbar buttons are grouped, especially if you have multiple windows open. Whenever you want to change the order of app buttons on the taskbar, just drag a button from its current position to a different one.