Dragging drives from my computer to the quickstart/launch bar

[Mad Ad]

how?

Ive always done it from win95 to XP, my whole pc experience is through
accessing these drives..but if i drag a drive now it pins it to some obscure
submenu meaning more clicks just to open a drive making it pointless to move
it from my computer

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/907/image1dy.png

picture incase anyones not sure what i mean...why wont win7 let me put them
there, and how can i make it so?

thanks

 

[Gordon]

On 14/03/2010 12:11, Mad Ad wrote:
> how?
>
> Ive always done it from win95 to XP, my whole pc experience is through
> accessing these drives..but if i drag a drive now it pins it to some obscure
> submenu

It pins it to the Windows Explorer icon. Right-click-choose drive. Not
that hard or obscure...

 

[Fishface]

Mad Ad wrote:
> Ive always done it from win95 to XP, my whole pc experience is through
> accessing these drives..but if i drag a drive now it pins it to some obscure
> submenu meaning more clicks just to open a drive making it pointless to
>move > it from my computer
>
> http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/907/image1dy.png
>
> picture incase anyones not sure what i mean...why wont win7 let me put them
> there, and how can i make it so?

You might try this:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html

 

[Char Jackson]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:11:13 -0000, "Mad Ad"
<~~@...madmail(at)ntlworld(dot)com...@~~> wrote:

>how?
>
>Ive always done it from win95 to XP, my whole pc experience is through
>accessing these drives..but if i drag a drive now it pins it to some obscure
>submenu meaning more clicks just to open a drive making it pointless to move
>it from my computer
>
>http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/907/image1dy.png
>
>picture incase anyones not sure what i mean...why wont win7 let me put them
>there, and how can i make it so?
>
>thanks

Probably a long shot, but if you can put a Windows Explorer icon on
the Quicklaunch bar where you want it, then you can adjust the Target
properties to open the drive you want. And if that works, you can add
as many more Windows Explorer icons as you like, setting each of them
to open the desired drives.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Mad Ad wrote:
> how?
>
> Ive always done it from win95 to XP, my whole pc experience is
> through accessing these drives..but if i drag a drive now it pins it
> to some obscure submenu meaning more clicks just to open a drive
> making it pointless to move it from my computer

What I have done is created my own toolbar. All you have to do is create
an empty folder somewhere then make it the target of a "New toolbar"
instruction. After that, you can drag whatever you want, including
drives, to your new custom toolbar, just like in the olde daze, with
optional title and text.

http://crash.thedatalist.com/temp/toolbar.png

--
Crash

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."
~ Otto von Bismarck ~

 

[Mad Ad]

"Gordon" <gbplinux@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:hnijvt$3sm$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> On 14/03/2010 12:11, Mad Ad wrote:
>> how?
>>
>> Ive always done it from win95 to XP, my whole pc experience is through
>> accessing these drives..but if i drag a drive now it pins it to some
>> obscure
>> submenu
>
> It pins it to the Windows Explorer icon. Right-click-choose drive. Not
> that hard or obscure...

Right, and if you read my request I want 1 click access again. Not that
useful or helpful...

 

[Mad Ad]

"Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:XIann.18478$ND2.7168@newsfe05.iad...
> Mad Ad wrote:
>> how?
>>
>> Ive always done it from win95 to XP, my whole pc experience is through
>> accessing these drives..but if i drag a drive now it pins it to some
>> obscure submenu meaning more clicks just to open a drive making it
>> pointless to move it from my computer
>
> What I have done is created my own toolbar. All you have to do is create
> an empty folder somewhere then make it the target of a "New toolbar"
> instruction. After that, you can drag whatever you want, including
> drives, to your new custom toolbar, just like in the olde daze, with
> optional title and text.
>
> http://crash.thedatalist.com/temp/toolbar.png
>
> --
> Crash
>
> "When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."
> ~ Otto von Bismarck ~

Thank you Gordon Fishface and Dave. I used the information and have made a
toolbar and dragged it over so its where the quicklaunch was. Mission
accomplished.

Thanks again.

Ad

 

[Roy Smith]

"Mad Ad" <~~@...madmail(at)ntlworld(dot)com...@~~> wrote in message
news:Nn4nn.51878$%h1.16689@newsfe03.ams2...
> how?
>
> Ive always done it from win95 to XP, my whole pc experience is through
> accessing these drives..but if i drag a drive now it pins it to some
> obscure submenu meaning more clicks just to open a drive making it
> pointless to move it from my computer
>
> http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/907/image1dy.png
>
> picture incase anyones not sure what i mean...why wont win7 let me put
> them there, and how can i make it so?

What you want to do is to restore the Quicklaunch toolbar and then you'll be
able to do as you did with XP and earlier versions of Windows. To do that,
just follow the steps in this article:

http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/restore-quick-launch-bar-in-windows-7/


--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Home Premium