what did I do to my task bar?

[Frank]

I believe the area to the right of the "Start" button is the "Task Bar".
Anyway,

I wanted to add a shortcut to a toolbar I had created on the task bar.

I dragged the folder there.

I believe the entire folder may have been copied there rather then creating
a shortcut.

I've searched the entire disk to see if I could find a new folder with the
right name but didn't find it.

Can you give me a hint of where to look for the toolbar info so I might be
able to track down and fix this?



Thanks

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I believe the area to the right of the "Start" button is the "Task
Bar".

No, the Task Bar is the entire bar that crosses the whole bottom of your
screen (if you haven't changed its default location) from the Start button
on the left to the System Notification Area (aka System Tray) on the right,
where the clock is.

The Task Bar is divided into three parts:

The Start button
The main part of the Task Bar (there's really no special name for this)
The System Notification Area

That main part of the Task Bar is where you see the icons for running
programs. It can also contain one or more "toolbars." What I think you are
referring to is one of those toolbars called the Quick Launch Bar.

By the way, that although the Quick Launch Bar (and other toolbars) appear
*on* the Task Bar by default, none of them is actually part of the Task Bar
itself, and any or all of them can be dragged off the Task Bar and docked
elsewhere on the screen. I particularly like the configuration with the Task
Bar at the bottom of the screen and the Quick Launch bar at the left side.

Anyway,

I wanted to add a shortcut to a toolbar I had created on the task bar.

I dragged the folder there.

I believe the entire folder may have been copied there rather then
creating a shortcut.

If you drag a folder to the Quick Launch Bar, you create a shortcut that
opens that folder. What makes you think you got a copy of the folder rather
than a shortcut pointing to it?

What do you see on the Quick Launch Bar? Is the folder there? Right-click on
it and choose Properties to see exactly what you have there.

I've searched the entire disk to see if I could find a new folder
with the right name but didn't find it.

Can you give me a hint of where to look for the toolbar info so I
might be able to track down and fix this?

Sorry, but I don't understand what you think is wrong, or what you want to
fix.

 

[Frank]

I just added something to it


thanks

Frank, if the Taskbar was not Locked down you may have move it to the
top, left or right side.

 

[Frank]

Thanks for the info on what things are called.

What I see on the Quick Launch bar that is new is the vertical dotted lines
that normally start a toolbar, which I can move back and forth as you'd
expect.
To the right is the word "Projects" which happens to be the name of a folder
I have. Then there are named folder icons (the names are the same as the
folders in my Projects folder). If I right click one and chose Properties
the properties window says the Type is Folder. (It does not say "Target
type" nor have a Shortcut tab, as a short cut would.)

If I right click Projects I get the Taskbar and Start Menu properties. Can I
determine anything about the word Projects?


Can you make sense of this??


Thanks

 

[Frank]

I dragged Projects from the Taskbar to the Desktop.

It Looks like a clone of my Projects folder.

If I change a file name in the dragged "Folder" the name changes in the real
Projects folder.

So, they are not shortcuts but rather another view of the real folder's
files.

I don't know what will happed if I delete tit!! Don't want to try.

Can you shed any light on what is going on?



Thanks

Thanks for the info on what things are called.

What I see on the Quick Launch

Sorry, not the quick launch but the unnamed part

bar that is new is the vertical dotted lines

that normally start a toolbar, which I can move back and forth as you'd
expect.
To the right is the word "Projects" which happens to be the name of a
folder I have. Then there are named folder icons (the names are the same
as the folders in my Projects folder). If I right click one and chose
Properties the properties window says the Type is Folder. (It does not say
"Target type" nor have a Shortcut tab, as a short cut would.)

If I right click Projects I get the Taskbar and Start Menu properties. Can
I determine anything about the word Projects?


Can you make sense of this??


Thanks

 

[Frank]

What I have is a Toolbar window. Don't know how I generated it but on the
desktop I can dock it to the right side. I'd like that if I could make it
auto-hide like the taskbar.

Not sure what the icons are since they do not show shortcut properties but
rather the properties of the target.

If I close it, does it get deleted?


Thanks

 

[Rich Barry]

Frank, if the Taskbar was not Locked down you may have move it to the top,
left or right side.