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Windows 7 changes the taskbar and removes quicklaunch which I used heavily and miss somewhat.

I know you can re-add quicklaunch to the taskbar but it seems to me a better idea would be an application that sat in the taskbar and displayed the quicklaunch icons when the cursor hovered over it, similar to the other menus that are displayed when an taskbar item is right-clicked in Windows 7. That would give you the speed and convenience of the old quicklaunch but not use up any screen real estate.

Does anyone know of any settings or applications for Windows 7 like this?

James Newton-King
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Isn't the entire purpose of the new taskbar to depricate quick launch and application and notification windows and replace them with a single smooth interface? What does quick launch do that pinning an application to the new taskbar won't do?

MDMarra
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You should have look at 7stacks, I think it's more or less what you want to do.

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The homepage is here and there is a review here.

PS: apparently their website is broken, as you cannot go into other pages nor even download. Use this link to download it.

Gareth
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Snark
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