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MMD3 posted:This is what I had True Launch Bar doing in XP... So just use True Launch Bar? The site says it's Win7 compatible. And don't forget to post in this thread.
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| # ? Jun 23, 2010 16:59 |
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Guerrand posted:So just use True Launch Bar? The site says it's Win7 compatible. I was hoping to avoid that since it's a bit of a resource hog.... figured in the time between the release of WinXP and Win7 they'd decide that was valuable functionality to add. So is there any other way to accomplish a similar thing? any way to cascade a selection of shortcuts out so I don't have 15 things pinned to the taskbar? I guess I'll just learn to love the start menu if not.
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| # ? Jun 23, 2010 17:58 |
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Put them on the bloody taskbar!
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| # ? Jun 23, 2010 17:59 |
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c0burn posted:Put them on the bloody taskbar! Seriously, what the gently caress! Just put them there they become little icons and you click them, how is this so hard?
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| # ? Jun 23, 2010 18:04 |
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I never said it's hard, it's just clutter, I guess I didn't realize I was being so unreasonable asking if there was a way to auto-hide them.
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| # ? Jun 23, 2010 18:18 |
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Why don't you just add the games folders and what not as extra toolbars? Just right click it and add toolbar, pin the rest of the programs and just set the taskbar to autohide?
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| # ? Jun 23, 2010 18:21 |
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MMD3 posted:I never said it's hard, it's just clutter, I guess I didn't realize I was being so unreasonable asking if there was a way to auto-hide them. Just use an applauncher gadget, it's the easiest way. (Speaking from experience, I could never get TLB to work on Vista.) LooseChanj fucked around with this message at Jun 23, 2010 around 19:44 |
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MMD3 posted:I never said it's hard, it's just clutter, I guess I didn't realize I was being so unreasonable asking if there was a way to auto-hide them. Try Jumplist Launcher - it lets you add custom shortcuts to its jumplist, and can even do groups within the list, so it kind of works like a quick launch bar that hides.
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| # ? Jun 23, 2010 19:42 |
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LooseChanj posted:Just use an applauncher gadget, it's the easiest way. (Speaking from experience, I could never get TLB to work on Vista.) awesome, didn't realize there were gadgets for it since I'm green to Win7, thanks for the heads-up. m2pt5 posted:Try [url=http://en.http://www.ali.dj/jumplist-launcher/]Jumplist Launcher[/url] - it lets you add custom shortcuts to its jumplist, and can even do groups within the list, so it kind of works like a quick launch bar that hides. looks like this might fit the bill perfectly, thanks! I think I'll try this and Launchy out to see which works best.
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| # ? Jun 23, 2010 20:32 |
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MMD3 posted:I never said it's hard, it's just clutter, I guess I didn't realize I was being so unreasonable asking if there was a way to auto-hide them. It's just weird since from our perspective you're asking for a bar with shortcuts on it and that's exactly what the new taskbar gives you, except with bonus OS integration. Also of note, in my experience the start menu search bar can completely replace Launchy - just press winkey and start typing.
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| # ? Jun 23, 2010 23:07 |
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ninepints posted:It's just weird since from our perspective you're asking for a bar with shortcuts on it and that's exactly what the new taskbar gives you, except with bonus OS integration. Also of note, in my experience the start menu search bar can completely replace Launchy - just press winkey and start typing. yeah, but I'm talking about like 10-20 apps that I regularly had in my quicklaunch bar in addition to another 20+ in fly out menu's... if I tried to pin those it would get a little ridiculous. maybe I should have played with the functionality a little more before posting but it seemed kind of baffling to me that they took away the ability to detach toolbars from the taskbar and move them where you wanted.
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| # ? Jun 23, 2010 23:25 |
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MMD3 posted:no, I really just want my quick launch bar to auto-hide somewhere so I don't have 15 icons cluttering up the taskbar... I use it as a list of my most frequently launched apps because I never got in the habit of using the start menu in WinXP... saves a few clicks (and hunting and pecking through the full program list) every time I want to launch an app. Pin your programs to the taskbar, set it to auto-hide. Does that not work like you want it to? ed: Just saw the post above... How about this? http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...r-in-windows-7/ evale fucked around with this message at Jun 23, 2010 around 23:30 |
| # ? Jun 23, 2010 23:27 |
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Just put your shortcuts to stuff in folders like someone else said, and then you'll have just categorized folders with handy pop out lists to launch things from, its not that hard, and its been in windows since like 98 or something.
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 00:04 |
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any idea why my google chrome icon isn't showing up when I pin it to the taskbar?
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 02:18 |
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My windows update keeps trying to download and install Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 ...(KB982526) and it keeps failing, but telling me I need to shut down to install updates anyway. I shut down, and says "Installing 1 of 1 updates" and shuts down, but when I boot back up it does the same thing. Any clue on what is going on? Edit: And apparently my ping has been jumping around from 150-800 constantly, usually sticking around 270 before going back way high. Ularg fucked around with this message at Jun 24, 2010 around 02:50 |
| # ? Jun 24, 2010 02:45 |
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MMD3 posted:any idea why my google chrome icon isn't showing up when I pin it to the taskbar? Google rebuild icon cache in windows 7 and you should find some instructions that will fix it.
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 02:47 |
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Ularg posted:My windows update keeps trying to download and install Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 ...(KB982526) and it keeps failing, but telling me I need to shut down to install updates anyway. I shut down, and says "Installing 1 of 1 updates" and shuts down, but when I boot back up it does the same thing. Have you tried a direct download? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&displaylang=en
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 02:57 |
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evale posted:Have you tried a direct download? Downloaded it but it won't seem to open, either by open or run as admin (I'm on admin). Edit: I went into update manager after trying to open the .exe and tried installing the update again, got halfway through the installation instantly and told em it failed.
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 03:04 |
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warning posted:Google rebuild icon cache in windows 7 and you should find some instructions that will fix it. tried this a few times, still not loading correctly 
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 06:01 |
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Ularg posted:Downloaded it but it won't seem to open, either by open or run as admin (I'm on admin). Run ccleaner or something similar and try again with the direct download? MMD3 posted:tried this a few times, still not loading correctly Have you tried reinstalling it?
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 08:25 |
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OK my new laptop has Windows 7 Home Premium and 2x500GB disks, configured as two separate drives C:\ and D:\. I want to RAID-0 these.
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 09:23 |
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Ularg posted:Downloaded it but it won't seem to open, either by open or run as admin (I'm on admin). I'm having this same problem with that update. Hopefully it's just a bug and they'll release something that works soon.
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 12:54 |
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Is there a way to lock my computer without logging off and killing all my programs?
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 13:07 |
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SnatchRabbit posted:Is there a way to lock my computer without logging off and killing all my programs? WinKey+L, or press the arrow next to the shutdown options on the start menu and choose Lock.
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 13:09 |
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c0burn posted:WinKey+L, or press the arrow next to the shutdown options on the start menu and choose Lock. You sure? I've been using Win + L and whenever I log on again all my programs are closed.
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 13:21 |
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Sounds like your computer shuts down and restarts? Maybe a hardware failure because locking nor sleeping ever closes any of my programs
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 13:30 |
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Sweeper posted:Sounds like your computer shuts down and restarts? Maybe a hardware failure because locking nor sleeping ever closes any of my programs I think I had a couple updates that needed to run, but as far as I know it hasn't been restarting.
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 13:41 |
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SnatchRabbit posted:I think I had a couple updates that needed to run, but as far as I know it hasn't been restarting. If all your programs are closed after locking your computer, it almost certainly restarted. Test it out: Lock with Win+L and then immediately log back in. If all your programs are closed then, you've got something very wrong.
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 13:45 |
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evale posted:Have you tried reinstalling it? Awesome, looks like this is working for now. Hopefully it won't become corrupted again. Thanks! now to figure out why it takes a full minute to wake up from sleep when it only takes 30 seconds to boot Windows. anybody have any tips on speeding up waking from sleep?
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| # ? Jun 24, 2010 15:37 |
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SnatchRabbit posted:I think I had a couple updates that needed to run, but as far as I know it hasn't been restarting. Open CMD and type in net stats workstation. The first line or so will show you when the computer last booted up.
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| # ? Jun 25, 2010 00:36 |
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MMD3 posted:now to figure out why it takes a full minute to wake up from sleep when it only takes 30 seconds to boot Windows. This seems to happen with hybrid sleep enabled. I think the idea is that, in addition to going to sleep, it also transfers the contents of RAM to disk in case power is interrupted. In my experience, it seems to want to restore from the disk instead of properly detecting that the contents of RAM are intact. This process takes a long time, especially if you have a lot of RAM. Try turning off hybrid sleep under advanced power options and see what happens. Zorilla fucked around with this message at Jun 25, 2010 around 18:22 |
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Zorilla posted:This seems to happen with hybrid sleep enabled. I think the idea is that, in addition to going to sleep, it also transfers the contents of RAM to disk in case power is interrupted. In my experience, it seems to want to restore from the disk and this takes forever, especially if you have a lot of RAM. I never understand what this feature is doing. On laptops if I'm in sleep for long enough and it kicks over to hibernate, restoring the file to ram takes maybe 10-20 seconds less than a cold boot. But every time it's happened on a desktop PC when power was pulled, it takes five minutes to load everything and another five after that before all the disk activity dies off and everything stops lagging to hell and back. I. Don't. Get. It.
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| # ? Jun 25, 2010 18:21 |
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For some reason my Windows+D (which usually minimizes everything) has stopped working. Obviously both keys work, and now any program that I run (such as L4D2 or WoW) that is maximized full screen, sits behind the task bar, and I can't make the task bar stay behind whatever maximized program I have up. Edit: Show desktop doesn't work either.
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| # ? Jun 25, 2010 22:11 |
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Ularg posted:For some reason my Windows+D (which usually minimizes everything) has stopped working. Obviously both keys work, and now any program that I run (such as L4D2 or WoW) that is maximized full screen, sits behind the task bar, and I can't make the task bar stay behind whatever maximized program I have up. Have you rebooted yet?
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| # ? Jun 25, 2010 22:14 |
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Have you rebooted yet? Just did and that fixed it, now I'm just wondering what I did that made it happen.
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| # ? Jun 25, 2010 22:15 |
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Ularg posted:Just did and that fixed it, now I'm just wondering what I did that made it happen. Sticky keys?
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| # ? Jun 26, 2010 02:58 |
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Zorilla posted:Try turning off hybrid sleep under advanced power options and see what happens. Hooking a battery to a machine with the USB cable it gives you also turns off hybrid sleep, which is why laptops have it off.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2010 03:00 |
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Ularg posted:Just did and that fixed it, now I'm just wondering what I did that made it happen. Just one of those weird bugs. Killing and restarting explorer would probably have fixed it too.
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| # ? Jun 26, 2010 03:23 |
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I'm trying to fresh install Win7x64 Ultimate with a promotional Microsoft disc, but I continually get error code 0x80070570 (cannot install required files) at 11% "expanding.." The disc and SSD are brand new; any gut reactions on what might be the problem?
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How big is the SSD? I had to use RT Seven Lite to shrink a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate in order for it to fit onto my 8 gig SSD.
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