In my working environment I used to have shortcuts on my Quick Launch bar to various file shares at work and at home, but since I’ve upgraded to Windows 7 I can’t seem to create shortcuts on the Taskbar(or in Windows 7 ‘pin’ it to the Taskbar).
Dhiren has come up with a quick way to be able to open up a folder shortcut around this issue.
Basically he created a small application(9KB) called Springboard which you create a shortcut to, and provide a “parameter” for in your shortcut and pin the shortcut to the Taskbar.
Very nice one Dhiren, thanks – will help a lot for me.
At home I have a network share that contains all kinds of “Knowledge Resources”. I’ve tested Dhirens’ Springboard application, and customised the icon in the Taskbar for my Shortcut and it does really work nicely.
Another option to use in Windows 7 is to use a folder as a toolbar, right click and select Toolbars->New Toolbar… and select the folder, and you would get a nice “dropup” menu to the folder. This doesn’t stop there, you can also double click on the folders within the “Toolbar” to open up those folders in an explorer window.
