Quick Launch & Folder Cascade

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Rick Friedline

At one time I knew how to create a folder on the QL Toolbar so that the
contents of the folder cascaded as a list rather than opening the folder.
Now I can't seem to re-create that effect.

Can someone refresh my memory or point to a link that will show me the
procedure?

TIA
 
A couple of options:

If you create addition custom toolbars and position them so only the name shows, the rest of the content will be available as a cascading menu.

If you want to see the folders on the toolbar and have them cascade, you need to use the following registry edit, courtesy of David Candy:

Add a REG_DWORD value to the registry key:
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"
and give it a value of 1. (you can also make it REG_SZ and give it a value of "YES")

You need to logoff/logon (or kill & restart explorer) for the change to take effect. Once this edit is applied, ctrl+click on the folder name will produce a cascading menu. There will also be a button next to the each folder name which can simply be clicked, but I just found it is invisible (but still functional) if the toolbar is part of the taskbar & you're using XPstyle as opposed to classic. If you drag the toolbar from the taskbar & dock it to another edge of the screen, you can see the 'cascade' button. If you apply classic view, you will see it on the taskbar toolbars as well.

Hope this helps. I'm off to poke around the luna.msstyles file and try to get those buttons to appear on the taskbar! :)

Keith
 
CascadeFolderBands=1 at that key (Kieth left it out).

The above is ME and XP

This is 95 with IE4 or later
http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros/ie5.html

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http://www.g2mil.com/Dec2003.htm
A couple of options:

If you create addition custom toolbars and position them so only the name shows, the rest of the content will be available as a cascading menu.

If you want to see the folders on the toolbar and have them cascade, you need to use the following registry edit, courtesy of David Candy:

Add a REG_DWORD value to the registry key:
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"
and give it a value of 1. (you can also make it REG_SZ and give it a value of "YES")

You need to logoff/logon (or kill & restart explorer) for the change to take effect. Once this edit is applied, ctrl+click on the folder name will produce a cascading menu. There will also be a button next to the each folder name which can simply be clicked, but I just found it is invisible (but still functional) if the toolbar is part of the taskbar & you're using XPstyle as opposed to classic. If you drag the toolbar from the taskbar & dock it to another edge of the screen, you can see the 'cascade' button. If you apply classic view, you will see it on the taskbar toolbars as well.

Hope this helps. I'm off to poke around the luna.msstyles file and try to get those buttons to appear on the taskbar! :)

Keith
 
Thanks David. I got the data in there, just forgot the value name! :)

CascadeFolderBands=1 at that key (Kieth left it out).

The above is ME and XP

This is 95 with IE4 or later
http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros/ie5.html

--
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.g2mil.com/Dec2003.htm
A couple of options:

If you create addition custom toolbars and position them so only the name shows, the rest of the content will be available as a cascading menu.

If you want to see the folders on the toolbar and have them cascade, you need to use the following registry edit, courtesy of David Candy:

Add a REG_DWORD value to the registry key:
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"
and give it a value of 1. (you can also make it REG_SZ and give it a value of "YES")

You need to logoff/logon (or kill & restart explorer) for the change to take effect. Once this edit is applied, ctrl+click on the folder name will produce a cascading menu. There will also be a button next to the each folder name which can simply be clicked, but I just found it is invisible (but still functional) if the toolbar is part of the taskbar & you're using XPstyle as opposed to classic. If you drag the toolbar from the taskbar & dock it to another edge of the screen, you can see the 'cascade' button. If you apply classic view, you will see it on the taskbar toolbars as well.

Hope this helps. I'm off to poke around the luna.msstyles file and try to get those buttons to appear on the taskbar! :)

Keith
 
If you want to see the folders on the toolbar and have them cascade, you need to use the following registry edit, courtesy of David Candy:

Add a REG_DWORD value to the registry key:
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"
and give it a value of 1. (you can also make it REG_SZ and give it a value of "YES")

You need to logoff/logon (or kill & restart explorer) for the change to take effect. Once this edit is applied, ctrl+click on the folder name will produce a cascading menu. There will also be a button next to the each folder name which can simply be clicked, but I just found it is invisible (but still functional) if the toolbar is part of the taskbar & you're using XPstyle as opposed to classic. If you drag the toolbar from the taskbar & dock it to another edge of the screen, you can see the 'cascade' button. If you apply classic view, you will see it on the taskbar toolbars as well.
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Thanks, but this does not work for me.

It seems to me that there was a "class" string that facilitated this
cascading folder - sort of like what is used to modify entries in the Start
menu.

And I'm sure that I did not have to ctrl+click on the folder name - just a
single left click ...

Anyone else have a suggestion?
 
You did see David's post that I forgot to post the actual value name, didn't you?

If you make the 'Links' folder a toolbar, it behaves this way. Perhaps that was the folder you happened to make a toolbar or perhaps there's a way to 'apply' this behavior to other folders. I don't know of one offhand.

As far as the taskbar toolbar drop down button, I found that the following info needs to be added to the .ini files of an .msstyles file to have an arrow show:

[TaskBar::Toolbar.SplitButtonDropdown]
GlyphType = ImageGlyph
GlyphImageFile = Blue\ToolbarButtonsSplitDropdownGlyph.bmp
GlyphTransparent = true
FillColorHint = 241 243 239
BorderColorHint = 206 206 195

Keith
 
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