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You can do three things. &nbsp;I do all three;<br />
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1. Group Apps in the Start Menu . That is as easy as the task bar.<br />
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2. Turn on the Desktop Toolbar. Right clock on the taskbar, toolbars and select Desktop. Now everything on the Desktop is a fly out from the icon. <br />
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3. Add All programs to the taskbar.<br />
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Right Click on the Taskbar<br />
Select Toolbar, New Toolbar<br />
Add the following content in the space provided:<br />
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\W<wbr />indows\Sta<wbr />rt Menu\Programs<br />
Save the toolbar. It should call itself Programs.<br />
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I use this all the time. I would never be without it.
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Don't understand, but are you saying &nbsp;that you can do as the image I placed?
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You said you wanted a menu list and both the methods 2 and 3 do that. Right click on the taskbar to set up the Desktop Toolbar and then use it (Up Arrow in the Taskbar on the right side). &nbsp;Try it out. It gives you the menu list you want.
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You cannot do that by default. If you cannot find an application, you can post a gig on EE
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I'm in the very early stages of a custom-developed tool that has a context menu that looks like this when you right-click its icon (the gold star) on the taskbar:<br />
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I don't know if I'll continue its development, but figured I would toss it out there to see what folks think. Regards, Joe
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Yes! Something like that!<br />
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What is &quot;post a gig on EE&quot;?
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Johns approach has some limitations: You can only display it at the rightmost of the taskbar, immediately left from the systray, you can't set up an icon, and it doesn't work exactly as you described.<br />
With W7 and prior you could use 7stacks (<a href="http://alastria.com/software/7stacks/" rel="ugc">http://alastria.com/software/7stacks/</a>), but I don't know whether it works with W10 too. Probably not, as much has changed in the UI ....
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True as you say, but when the &quot;limitations&quot; are so slight that they fade into oblivion, then I am not hampered or slowed down in any way.
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John, we used your recommendation and created a new folder and placed the apps we want access (though its not like Qlemo says, but will &nbsp;do for now).<br />
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Qlemo I was looking for the name and that is the apps we used to use back in w7.
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You are very welcome and I was happy to help. I know visually that was not precisely what you wanted but it does work well for me.
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&gt; Yes! Something like that!<br />
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Glad to hear it. I'm calling the program <b>TaskbarLauncher</b>. Latest mock-up looks like this:<br />
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&gt;&nbsp;What is &quot;post a gig on EE&quot;?<br />
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Explained here:<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/gigs/" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/gigs/</a><br />
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Regards, Joe
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I realize that this question is already closed, but for anyone who is interested, I wrote the program — was a fun, little project! Decided to rename it <b>TrayLaunch</b>, since it sits in the system tray, not on the taskbar. The <b>Quick Start Guide</b> is attached — feedback on it, especially suggestions for improvements, gladly accepted. Regards, Joe<br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2017/12_w50/1215512/TrayLaunch_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf" target="_blank" class="file-inline" title="TrayLaunch_Quick_Start_Guide (181 KB)"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M67.508 468.467c-58.005-58.013-58.016-151.92 0-209.943l225.011-225.04c44.643-44.645 117.279-44.645 161.92 0 44.743 44.749 44.753 117.186 0 161.944l-189.465 189.49c-31.41 31.413-82.518 31.412-113.926.001-31.479-31.482-31.49-82.453 0-113.944L311.51 110.491c4.687-4.687 12.286-4.687 16.972 0l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.685 12.283 0 16.969L184.983 304.917c-12.724 12.724-12.73 33.328 0 46.058 12.696 12.697 33.356 12.699 46.054-.001l189.465-189.489c25.987-25.989 25.994-68.06.001-94.056-25.931-25.934-68.119-25.932-94.049 0l-225.01 225.039c-39.249 39.252-39.258 102.795-.001 142.057 39.285 39.29 102.885 39.287 142.162-.028A739446.174 739446.174 0 0 1 439.497 238.49c4.686-4.687 12.282-4.684 16.969.004l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.689 12.279.004 16.965a755654.128 755654.128 0 0 0-195.881 195.996c-58.034 58.092-152.004 58.093-210.048.041z"/></svg>TrayLaunch_Quick_Start_Guide.pdf</a>
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The windows built-in <b><i>Toolbars &gt;&gt;&nbsp;New Toolbar</i></b> works great for me where we can create direct apps links and folder and sub-folder to any level we want and have a direct apps link there also.<br />
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That said, I read your PDF and didn't find if folder and sub-folder with apps links within it can be created.<br />
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(just a thought)
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It doesn't support folders/subfolders. It provides just a simple list of shortcuts that is always available in the system tray for two-click access (a right-click then a left-click) to your fav/most-used apps, without taking up pin space on the taskbar. Adding support for folders/subfolders could certainly be done, but it would introduce a degree of complexity beyond which I had been thinking — my initial thought going into the project was to keep it very simple. For folders/subfolders, I'd go with a program group hanging off the Start button.<br />
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But thanks for the thought! Regards, Joe
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For anyone still interested in this thread, there is now V1.2 of <b>TrayLaunch</b> (the previously posted Quick Start Guide was for V1.1). V1.2 has the following enhancements that were requested by beta users:<br />
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(1) Multiple instances of the app with different color stars in the system tray. One user said that he wants a way to organize the shortcuts by usage areas, such as a launch list for all his favorite Word docs, another one for his fav Excel files, another for his PDF files, one for just the apps themselves with no specific file being opened, etc. He thinks that a color scheme will be easy to remember: gold for one group, blue for another, etc. I don't know what a good number would be...didn't want too many...or too few. Decided on five: gold, red, green, blue, purple. So the system tray could look like this (each color star with its own launch list):<br />
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(2) Another beta user wants to be able to specify the icon for any app in the launch list. V1.2 adds an optional third parameter to each line in the configuration file, allowing specification of a file that contains the icon for the app. Here's an example of such a line:<br />
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<b>Travel Checklist,c:\docs\travel trip checklist.docx,c:\MyIcons\<wbr />GreenCheck<wbr />mark.ico</b><br />
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We are looking for a way we can pin a list of apps or a group of apps under one &quot;pin&quot; in the taskbar &nbsp;(pix below show example of &quot;x&quot; pinned &nbsp;displaying the apps desired to be at hand).<br />
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Can the lates windows version upgrade installed do that or maybe a tool?
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We are looking for a way we can pin a list of apps or a group of apps under one "pin" in the taskbar  (pix below show example of "x" pinned  displaying the apps desired to be at hand).



Can the lates windows version upgrade installed do that or maybe a tool?

A tool that we can place (or pin) a menu-list instead of an apps in Windows 10 task-bar

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