Creating "side bar" on your PC

[niki]

G’day mates

You can create a “Side bar” (left or right) or an “Upper bar” or all the 3 of them, and drag your shortcuts from the desktop to one of the bars and by that, cleaning your desktop from extra shortcuts.
The bar(s) will be hidden and only when you “bang” your courser against the “wall” of the desktop, the bar will appear and you can select your shortcut with ONE click only.

It’s NOT my “patent”, I read it on one of the computer forums, I did it and I’m very happy with it.

1. Right click on “Start” and click on “Explore”, This will open the “windows explorer”.
2. Click on the + of “windows” to expand it.
3. Click on the + of “Start Menu” to expand it.
4. Click on “Programs” (NOT the + but the file itself). On the right pane you will see the folders of all your “Start Menu” programs.
5. On the RIGHT PANE, RIGHT click on an empty space. On the drop-down menu go down to “New”, go to the right and click on “Folder”. A new folder will be created on the right pane.
6. Rename the “New folder” to “Side bar” or, “Upper bar” or whatever name you like
7. Close the “Windows Explorer”.
8. Click on “Start”, go to “Programs” and look for the “Side bar” (or whatever name you gave it), it should be the last at the bottom of the menu.
9. Left click on the “Side bar”, hold it and drag it to one of the “walls” of your desktop and DROP it there. You should see a new bar with the name you gave it.
10. Right click on the bar. On the drop-down menu, click “Always on Top”. Right click again on the bar and click “Auto Hide”
To see the bar just “Bang” your courser against the “wall” of your screen.
11. Take any shortcut, drag it into the bar and drop it there. To open the program of this shortcut, bang the courser to the wall, the bar will appear, and click ONES on the icon.
12. You can resize the width of the bar at the same way you resize any other window.

If you like to see more “Tips and Tricks”, go to this site
http://forums.techguy.org/

Hope it helps
niki

[scooter]

Sounds cool, niki, thanks !


Cheers...............Sean, half a bar