Ok... I've got a stupid computer question?

Appylvr · 10-18-2009, 10:50 AM

How do you get icons on your taskbar at the bottom of the screen? Like Windows Media Player and an Internet one? So you just click them on the bar and you don't have to go find them in the Start menu?

Akhorse · 10-18-2009, 04:20 PM

For windows media player, start the program. Right-click on the toolbar, highlight the word "toolbar" that is in your pop up, a pop up menu will appear, click on windows media player. It will put your player on your tool bar. You will have to re-put it on your tool bar if you close it or reboot your computer. If there is a way to put it on there forever, I do not know it.

Hope you understood that.

Appylvr · 10-18-2009, 08:17 PM

Thanks, I figured out how to do that... I was trying to make it stay all the time.

Berlunz · 10-19-2009, 08:35 AM

I think you are talking about the quick launch toolbar. If you are using xp go to the area by your start button and right click. Then go to toolbars and select "Quick launch". this can only display 3 items in the toolbar itself but it can hold many by clicking the expanding arrow. I keep my favorite 3 there (desktop, outlook and IE). The quick launch usually includes defaults of IE, windows media player etc. You may have to google to find out how to add others. (For me I had to type up some code to get a desktop option so when I click it, it minimizes all windows and shows me my desktop)

horse_crazee · 10-19-2009, 11:20 PM

i just go to the application i want to be put there.. then i click and drag to the quick launch area works for me
should work for xp, vista as i am aware

10-18-2009, 10:50 AM	#1
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10-18-2009, 04:20 PM	#2
Akhorse Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Wasilla Alaska Posts: 302 Images: 131	For windows media player, start the program. Right-click on the toolbar, highlight the word "toolbar" that is in your pop up, a pop up menu will appear, click on windows media player. It will put your player on your tool bar. You will have to re-put it on your tool bar if you close it or reboot your computer. If there is a way to put it on there forever, I do not know it. Hope you understood that. __________________ Dawn W 7 pounds lost Proud member of the Thread Killer Club! Proud to be a member of...The Sarcasm Society For The Computer Illiterate My horse spells better than I do!

10-18-2009, 08:17 PM	#3
Appylvr Senior Member+ Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: California Posts: 9,842 Images: 339	Thanks, I figured out how to do that... I was trying to make it stay all the time. __________________ Your horse can only be as brave as you are ride and never worry about the fall Life is good... Horses make it better

10-19-2009, 08:35 AM	#4
Berlunz Senior Member+ Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,020 Images: 33	I think you are talking about the quick launch toolbar. If you are using xp go to the area by your start button and right click. Then go to toolbars and select "Quick launch". this can only display 3 items in the toolbar itself but it can hold many by clicking the expanding arrow. I keep my favorite 3 there (desktop, outlook and IE). The quick launch usually includes defaults of IE, windows media player etc. You may have to google to find out how to add others. (For me I had to type up some code to get a desktop option so when I click it, it minimizes all windows and shows me my desktop) __________________ This is the internet, anything you say can and will be misconstrued and used against you in a quote! You have the right to argue back but its usually fruitless. My Grandfather has been "Going Green" for most of his life. He didnt use the modern phrase though, he just called it responsibility.

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horse_crazee Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 1,748 Images: 147	i just go to the application i want to be put there.. then i click and drag to the quick launch area works for me should work for xp, vista as i am aware