Quick Launch

Wonder if you can help me with this one???
Quick Launch toolbar is visible on Taskbar (which is NOT locked) - shortcuts I want on the QL toolbar are in the correct folder (and permissions on the folder are Full Control) - but the shortcuts icons are NOT displayed on the QL toolbar - ANY ideas what's happening???

Hi AdamBC,

Do you mean that the shorcuts are not in QL, or that the icons are incorrect for the shortcut in QL?

If they are not in QL, then try refreshing the desktop or do a restart.

If they have incorrect icons, then :
1. Right click the shortcut.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click Change Icon button.
4. Select the correct icon and click Ok.
5. Click Ok to apply and close properties.

Shawn

I came to this link through the Windows Vista Community boards. Shawn had linked after someone reported that some Quick Launch icons wouldn't work.

I've got the same problem and additional details, if anyone can help.

Here's what's happening (as I've posted a couple places, to no avail):

I've added MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook icons to my Quick Launch toolbar. All of these are Office 2007 Enterprise edition and I'm operating Windows Vista x64 Home Premium.

So, here's the rub. If I have my Quick Launch set up so that only a few (let's say 3) icons are visible and the rest come from expanding the window, the ones in the expansion don't work.

To make the problem more clear, let me explain a little more how it would work. Let's say I've got an MS Word icon in there. If it is one that is seen all the time, without expanding the selection, MS Word will launch when I click on the icon. If I move the same icon into the expansion group, it won't launch MS Word.

If I unlock the toolbar and make all my Quick Launch icons visible all the time, they all work. Again, if I collapse this to save space on the bottom, every Office icon hidden becomes unresponsive. Non-Office icons appear to still work.

Ideas on how to fix this? I like having those icons in there, but I really don't want to lose that much task bar space.


Thanks for any help,

Frank

Hi Frank,

Try restarting the computer to see if it will reset Quick Launch. If it doesn't, then try running the command sfc /scannow in a elevated command prompt. You can see how here:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files.html

Shawn

Tried both. No improvement.

There are a lot of weird things about this problem. Other QL links in the expansion menu still work. The WindowsKey + number hotkeys work for things in the expansion. If I drag one of the Office icons out to one of the visible ones, it works.

It's just a few icons that don't work, and only when they are in the drop-down (pop-up?) expansion menu.

I've solved lots of problems before, but this one is just plain baffling to me. Too many things are going right that should go wrong at the same time.

Ok Frank,

Try deleting the ones that do not work from Quick Launch in the expansion area, then create new shortcuts for them and put them in Quick Launch. Hopefully the new ones will work. The old ones must have gotten corrupted some how.

Shawn

Done that one quite a few times. No luck. I'm starting to think I might have to call MS and then probably wait for a Hotfix.

Ok Frank,

One last thing to try.

1. Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files..." in folder options.
2. Check "Show hidden files and folders" in folder options.
3. Go to C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
4. Delete the desktop.ini file inside the Quick Launch folder.
5. Restart computer.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hmm...now that's interesting. I don't seem to have a desktop.ini file in there. Wonder what that means...