{"id":1205,"date":"2008-09-12T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T14:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/windows-quick-launch-toolbar-tips.htm"},"modified":"2008-09-12T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T19:30:14","slug":"windows-quick-launch-toolbar-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/windows-quick-launch-toolbar-tips.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows Quick Launch toolbar tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/installing-live-mesh-on-windows-server-2008.htm\">last night&#8217;s post on Live Mesh<\/a>, which included a screenshot of my desktop, Garry Martin dropped me a line to ask about the large icons in my Quick Launch Toolbar.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t claim credit for discovering this but it&#8217;s a tip I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/\">Paul Thurrott<\/a> describe on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twit.tv\/ww\/\">Windows Weekly podcast<\/a> a while back and it doesn&#8217;t seem to be very well known.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/windows-taskbar-large-icons.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Large icons in the Quick Launch Toolbar\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First of all, I changed the height of my Taskbar by clicking and dragging on the top edge.  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Finally, selecting large icons involves right-clicking on the divider to the left of the Quick Launch Bar and selecting large icons in the view menu option.<\/p>\n<p>Also, as Paul mentions in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/winvista_more_tips.asp\">more Windows Vista Tips<\/a> article, the Windows and <em>number<\/em> keys can be used together to launch the  applications that are linked from the Quick Launch bar (the first 10 of them anyway) (e.g. in the screenshot above, <code><em>windowskey<\/em><\/code>+<code>5<\/code> would launch Outlook and <code><em>windowskey<\/em><\/code>+<code>0<\/code> would launch Notepad, etc.<\/p>\n<p>My system is running Windows Server 2008 but this tip also applies to Windows Vista, Server 2003 and XP (I didn&#8217;t try any earlier versions of Windows)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last night&#8217;s post on Live Mesh, which included a screenshot of my desktop, Garry Martin dropped me a line to ask about the large icons in my Quick Launch Toolbar. 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