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You know that Quick Launch Bar is no longer available in Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7.You should note that the new Windows 7 taskbar allows you to dock items to the taskbar, combining the features of both the normal taskbar as well as the Quick Launch.But some users may find that they really need the Quick Launch bar back like it was in Windows Vista and XP. Windows 7 doesn’t give you any instant way to bring it back, but it is still possible.Because Microsoft has not yet completely removed the Quick Launch Bar yet, instead the Quick Launch Toolbar has been disabled and hidden by default. Getting the Quick Launch Toolbar back on Windows 7 is very easy. First, right-click on the taskbar and turn off “Lock the Taskbar.” Right-click the taskbar, hover over Toolbars, and select New Toolbar. When it asks you to select a folder, enter this string: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch Find Quick Launch (it may be on the right...

Taskbar Thumbnail Preview is an interesting feature in Windows 7, displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons. Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Preview feature actually a resource hog. So it is better to disable this feature on low configuration computers running on Windows 7. For this you can adopt any of the following three methods: Method 1: Throgh Group Policy Editor: Click on start and type on search bar gpedit.msc and press enter In the opened Group Policy Editor window, navigate to User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Start Menu and Taskbar Locate “Turn off Taskbar Thumbnails” in right pan of Group policy editor and double click on it. Select Disable click apply and Press ok Now check your Taskbar, it shouldn’t show Thumbnails Preview . Method 2: Through Desktop Button Bar: Right click on the button bar on the far right end of the Windows Taskbar. To turn off Desktop Preview, unselect Preview desktop...

Taskbar Thumbnail Preview is a new feature in Windows7, displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons.Taskbar Thumbnail Preview feature actually a resource hog. But if you have enough hardware resources , then it would add an extra appeal to your Windows 7 user interface .But one issue with Thumbnail Preview feature is, it takes some time(about 400 ms) to display thumbnail once you hover your mouse on taskbar icon by that time you can open actually window. By a simple registry tweak,you can change the delay time that the mouse pointer has to stay hovered over an item before that item’s thumbnail preview is displayed. To speed up taskbar thumbnails in Windows7, do the following steps: Open Windows 7 registry editor by click on the Start button, type regedit in the search box and hit enter. Click yes if UAC(User Account Control) prompts. Navigate to the registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse Now locate...