Is it really impossible to have a cascaded FOLDER-ONLY menu pinned to the taskbar?
 

My philosophy is to use the taskbar as the start point for everything.
o I've been successful limiting the privacy-leaking damage from Cortana
o I've been successful with organizing (right-side) orthodox tile menus
o I've been successful with populating (left-side) heterodox alphabeticals
o I've been super successful organizing the pinned "Quick Launch"
o I've been successful with pinning frequently-used programs (everyone has)
o I've been super successful adding a WinXP-style cascaded shortcut menu
o I've been successful adding lesser-used shortcuts (in pinned "Favorites")
o I've been successful limiting the "notifications" to a bare minimum
o I've been successful in eliminating the "action center" callouts
etc.

The one thing I haven't yet figured out how to do with the taskbar is how
to make it do a waterfall-style cascade to a menu system of just folders.

Apparently, from my experiments, the only way to waterfall cascade from the
taskbar to any of the key desired folders, is to use the "actual" folders
(and not a facsimile, or shortcut, to those folders), which is ridiculous
(IMHO).

So that's the only thing missing in making the taskbar the *start* point
for *everything* that I initiate on the Windows 10 desktop.

I open this thread in the hopes that there is some devilishly clever way to
cascade "folders", so that, for example, if I want to open this folder
menu folder 1 folder 2 folder 3 folder 4 (open)

To be clear, I don't want _all_ the folders in that pinned cascade!

I want just the folders that I use the most pinned to that cascade.
(And no, it doesn't count to have a _flat_ list of pinned folders!)

It has to be an active waterfall-style *cascade*.
Is that possible?

Is it impossible to have a cascaded FOLDER-ONLY menu pinned to the taskbar?
Or, is there a clever way?

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Is it really impossible to have a cascaded FOLDER-ONLY menupinned to the taskbar?
 

On 11/17/2018 1:13 PM, arlen michael holder wrote:
My philosophy is to use the taskbar as the start point for everything.
o I've been successful limiting the privacy-leaking damage from Cortana
o I've been successful with organizing (right-side) orthodox tile menus
o I've been successful with populating (left-side) heterodox alphabeticals
o I've been super successful organizing the pinned "Quick Launch"
o I've been successful with pinning frequently-used programs (everyone has)
o I've been super successful adding a WinXP-style cascaded shortcut menu
o I've been successful adding lesser-used shortcuts (in pinned "Favorites")
o I've been successful limiting the "notifications" to a bare minimum
o I've been successful in eliminating the "action center" callouts
etc.

The one thing I haven't yet figured out how to do with the taskbar is how
to make it do a waterfall-style cascade to a menu system of just folders.

Apparently, from my experiments, the only way to waterfall cascade from the
taskbar to any of the key desired folders, is to use the "actual" folders
(and not a facsimile, or shortcut, to those folders), which is ridiculous
(IMHO).

So that's the only thing missing in making the taskbar the *start* point
for *everything* that I initiate on the Windows 10 desktop.

I open this thread in the hopes that there is some devilishly clever way to
cascade "folders", so that, for example, if I want to open this folder
menu folder 1 folder 2 folder 3 folder 4 (open)

To be clear, I don't want _all_ the folders in that pinned cascade!

I want just the folders that I use the most pinned to that cascade.
(And no, it doesn't count to have a _flat_ list of pinned folders!)

It has to be an active waterfall-style *cascade*.
Is that possible?

Is it impossible to have a cascaded FOLDER-ONLY menu pinned to the taskbar?
Or, is there a clever way?

Google "filebox extender windows 10"

I think it still works but is discontinued so search for replacements

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Zaidy036

Is it really impossible to have a cascaded FOLDER-ONLY menu pinned to the taskbar?
 

On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 15:11:14 -0500, Zaidy036 wrote:

Google "filebox extender windows 10"

I think it still works but is discontinued so search for replacements

Thanks for that hint.

In general, I try to wrestle Windows native into doing what it should.
The reason is that these "classic-shell-extension" things, (e.g., winaero
type stuff), tends to break with subsequent Microsoft updates and, in
general, if we're intelligent about it, we can get Windows 10 to do what
it's supposed to do (e.g., WinXP style menus and Mounting Android Devices
as drive letters) natively.

Nonetheless, it's good to know if this "filebox extender" stuff is that
magic that cascades folders in Windows 10.

This first hit says it works fine with Windows 10:
https://yepdownload.com/filebox-extender

I prefer the "canonical" site for most downloads...

Searching for the canonical site, there's also "filebox "eXtender".
https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/filebox-extender.htm-1
Dunno if it's the same thing or not yet.
https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/FileBox-eXtender.shtml
I guess Sourceforge is as good as any ... FileBox eXtender
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fileboxextender/
But nothing is there.

This seems to be the canonical site
http://www.hyperionics.com/files/index.asp

http://www.hyperionics.com/files/downloads.asp
32-bit
http://www.hyperionics.com/downloads/FbxSetup.exe
64-bit
http://www.hyperionics.com/downloads/Fbx64Setup.exe

I saved to C:\software\os\util\filebx
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Checksum information
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Name: Fbx64Setup.exe
Size: 1704600 bytes (1 MB)

SHA256: FB9C66C5F1C8AF4074F89551294B30E50A55D35241E2FB361E 1B1D2EFA9C55D2

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OK
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I put it into C:\app\os\util\filebx
Desktop shortcut target C:\app\os\util\filebx\FileBX.exe
Opens to a gui saying "hyperionics filebox extender".
"Navigate easily through the Winodws folder maze."
I'll test it out... Thanks.