Windows 7 Pro general questions

We are a small office and I am, among other things, the guy the IT falls to. I don't know much, but can execute on your input.

I showed her the breadcrumbs thing. That helps. Thanks.

"Would like to see if I can place the shared drive on the toolbar (have tried but it just keeps making a copy of the shared drive)." The issue here is we used to make shortcuts of folders we access constantly and dropped those shortcuts on the toolbar in XP and they would appear next to the Start org and the IE and Outlook icons.  I can't seem to do that with Win7. The closest I have come to that is to get get the shortscuts to appear in the "desktop" grouping thing that now appears on the toolbar.  She doesn't like that because she has to click the "desktop" grouping and then navigate the popup rather than simply click to open the folder from the toolbar.

"Need permission changed so I can delete shortcuts off my desktop." She is a standard user.  I'll delete whatever she wants, but how to do that?

>The issue here is we used to make shortcuts of folders we access constantly and dropped those shortcuts on the toolbar in XP and they would appear next to the Start org and the IE and Outlook icons.

I presume what you are talking about for how you did it in XP is what is called the Quick Launch bar.  This was eliminated in Windows 7 since the new Taskbar acts like a combination of the old Taskbar and the Quick Launch bar.  However, you can put the Quick Launch toolbar back in Windows 7 by following this page:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/add-the-quick-launch-bar-to-the-taskbar-in-windows-7/

Next time you have Explorer open, viewing the drive contents, Right Click the "Explorer" icon on teh TaskBar and select "Pin to Taskbar". From there, you can take advantage of Jump Lists

Jump Lists
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/jump-lists

When you Right Click the Explorer icon on the TaskBar, you can see "Pinned" and "Frequent" places. You hit the pushpin icon on the common folders/mapped drives, and it jumps to the top of the list.

Hi Guys, good suggestions. It helps.

Lee, found this suggestion had a lot of promise, but it didn't go according to the Geek instructions:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27903/how-to-pin-an-external-drive-to-the-windows-7-taskbar/ 

First thing I noticed is when I changed the name to abc.exe, it let me.  It didn't ask if I really wanted to do that.

Next thing I noticed is when I right click it, there is no "pin to " in the pop up menu.  Also when I go to properties, when the window comes up, there is no "shortcut" tab.

If you find there is something I am missing, let me know. Otherwise I think I give her the first option you suggest and also johnb6767's suggestion.

Rodynetwork,

If Windows didn't warn you when you changed the name of the new file to abc.exe, you must have actually changed the file name itself and not modified the file type.

To change the file type, open Windows Explorer and click on the following sequence:

Organize -> Folder and Search Options -> View tab and uncheck Hide extensions for known file types.  Once that is done, you can potentially change the file type from TXT to EXE.

Run5k, that sounds promising, but I am having trouble at "Organize". When I open a Window and try to type in "organize", it keeps taking me to Internet Explorer.  When you say "open Windows Explorer"...you mean I should open a window, a Windows window, right?  I do see what you are saying about the name changing. When I go to properties, I see it name abc.exe.txt.  The .txt is being hidden.  But, trying to get a window up and type in Organize only takes me to Internet Explorer....

I think that I can clarify that for you.  Navigate through the follow sequence:

Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Windows Explorer

Once you are in there, you will see the Organize button in the upper-left portion of the screen.  I highlighted an example in the screen shot below.  Execute the instructions that I described in my previous post, and you should be in business!

 

Pretty snazzy.  Helped to turn off the Hide extension!   Have it on the Taskbar now. Any chance you would know why the icon won't change and how to get it to?  When I right click the icon on the Taskbar and then right click the name abc.exe and select properties, it opens with the following tabs:

General, Shortcut, Security, Details, Previous Versions.

The isn't a Customize tab when the Geek sheet shows it. The is are buttons towards the bottom of the window and one says Change Icon, but when I go there and select an icon, and chose Apply or Ok, it doesn't change.

I noticed when she logged on this morning, the icon had changed.  Thanks for the help.  I think this one is done.