On 5/10/13 6:12 PM, dadiOH wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:
On 5/9/13 5:34 PM, dadiOH wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:

Well, I'll be... I didn't know you could have multiple taskbars. :-)
Know of a good web tutorial somewhere about this?

I'm sure there must be but if Google doesn't turn one up my ancient
"dadiOH's Dandies" has a section in it titled "Taskbars & Toolbars"
that explains it more fully. You can get it at..
http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
It is an old fashioned Help file so has to be downloaded.

Come to think of it, it is also available at a web site (not mine) in
HTML...
http://www.shareup.com/dadioh/taskbars-toolbars.html

Ah Ha! Now I've got it! You've added toolbars, not additional
taskbars. grin From the way you worded it, I got the impression
you could add additional system type taskbars.

In reality, you've added additional toolbars with "sub-toolbars" in
each one, correct?

To me, a taskbar is something to which one may add toolbars.

Tow-may-tow, tow-mah-toh, I've no problem with that now that I see what
you are doing. :-)

I just tried dragging the Computer icon to a blank side of the desktop,
no taskbar/toolbar. But, it sounds like if a person used your
instructions for populating a folder for a taskbar in Win 8, then used
the add toolbar option from the taskbar, you'd have something similar,
anyway.

Unfortunately, I don't have anything installed in my Win 8 VM to try it out.

Your use of shortcuts is not all that different from my workaround for
Libraries to get the Libraries to do what I want them to do.

I thought MS did a decent job with the Help and Support files in Win 7.
But it looks like they really missed the boat in Win 8. I typed in
both taskbar and toolbar, got virtually nothing from Help and Support.
And I see we've added the ribbon to the Explorer windows. IMO, what a
total useless waste of space is the ribbon.

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Is this what you are looking for? The auto-login feature? I just
tried it in my Win 8 VM and it worked.

Thanks but I have NP logging in automatically. What bugs me is the
(in my case) unnecessary duplication of folders for each user (even
if it is only one).

NP? Drawing a blank here for that acronym. LOL

NP = no problem.

Now, why didn't I think of that! LOL

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Are you talking about the duplication of folders for each user under
Documents and Settings?

Yep.

I felt exactly the same way until I finally took the time to learn the
security reasons behind multiple users, then it made perfect sense.

That being said, I read somewhere there is a way to make any and all
users access the same folders in Win 7. 3rd party, registry hack,
something, I just don't remember how it was done. Maybe the same
methods would work in Win 8. It's not something that interests me
personally, so I didn't truly commit it to memory.

You know, it just occurred to me, you might pull this off by redirecting
all the appropriate files for each user to the same file location
somewhere else. I redirect those documents to a different hard drive or
partition as SOP so the user data is not on the system/boot partition.


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Ken

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