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Indeed. But with Explorer Patcher I was able to re-enable Quick Launch prior to the 24H2 update.
I'll take a look - thanksThe tool at the link below provides similar functionality via the System Tray:
GitHub - brondavies/TrayToolbar: Provides a replacement for the custom toolbar functionality that was removed in Windows 11
Provides a replacement for the custom toolbar functionality that was removed in Windows 11 - brondavies/TrayToolbar
Just installed it - works perfectly. Restored the "old" taskbar context menu (toolbars, lock taskbar, etc). Thanks very much
Did you mean to thank @Spunk? I'm confused because earlier you said "with ExplorerPatcher I was able to re-enable Quick Launch prior to the 24H2 update" but the article was about using ExplorerPatcher, so I didn't expect that to work for you. Or were you talking about Tray Toolbar from GitHub?Just installed it - works perfectly. Restored the "old" taskbar context menu (toolbars, lock taskbar, etc). Thanks very much
I was thanking you.
The latest pre-release (22621.3880.66.7) works fine for me on 24H2. You just need to choose "Windows 10 (ExplorerPatcher)" instead of "Windows 10" as the taskbar style. To move a toolbar to the area between the Start button and the Pinned area, you have to "snap" it there, i.e., drag it with your mouse by moving your mouse much faster than normal. (Snap is a UI feature that was introduced by Microsoft with the release of Windows 7.)
I AM using the correct toolbar setting. And what I want is the quick launch toolbar, which I now have thanks to TrayToolbar. Thanks though.
The popup menu that TrayToolbar adds to the System Tray, or Notification area of the taskbar is not nearly the same as a "Quick Launch" toolbar. The difference is that a toolbar can be positioned anywhere within the space of the taskbar that would otherwise be just empty space, and that a toolbar can also be resized to keep one or more icons always visible on the toolbar. The screenshot that I posted is an example of how a Quick Launch toolbar actually looks like when there's only one icon on it (the Show Desktop shortuct in my case, as I like to have a Show Desktop button on both ends of my taskbar just so I can avoid having to move my mouse pointer all the way to the far right each time).
Perhaps Tray Toolbar doesn't work like the QL toolbar does for you, but it does for me. Absolutely the same functionality.
I don't have an issue, nor was trying to argue about anything. All I did was post 2 screenshots for those who might stumble across this thread and who might not already know the difference between a so-called "Quick Launch" toolbar and TrayToolbar's popup menu.
You're very much welcome.
