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Multi Commander => Support and Feedback => Topic started by: Alanrf on December 06, 2015, 15:22:14

Title: Quick Launch Bar icon
Post by: Alanrf on December 06, 2015, 15:22:14

Just a small, almost trivial point.

When installing Multi Commander on a Win 10 box the MC icon does not appear on the Quick Launch Bar.

At installation all three options are checked; the Desktop icon and the Start Menu entry are fine.

Same issue occurred on two separate boxes.


All options worked fine on a Vista box.

Title: Re: Quick Launch Bar icon
Post by: Mathias (Author) on December 06, 2015, 15:41:48

Windows 10 do not by default have a the quick lunch bar on the taskbar anymore.

But a link for MC should be created in %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
And if you have it enabled. It should show up.

Title: Re: Quick Launch Bar icon
Post by: Alanrf on December 06, 2015, 16:01:52

True. But if a Quick Launch bar is already enabled then it may be reasonable to expect the icon to appear.


As I wrote, it is not a real issue and I can, (and have), resolve it simply by pinning the shortcut to the Quick launch area.  The content is stored in AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch

A number of icons are placed there by other programs, or in AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/User Pinned/Taskbar.

To be fair, it may be that some, but not all, of this functionality may be an artefact of the Win 7 installation prior to the Win 10 upgrade.

No a problem, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Title: Re: Quick Launch Bar icon
Post by: Mathias (Author) on December 06, 2015, 16:18:22

A shortcut is created in AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch if that option is checked.
It only shows up in the taskbar if it is enabled. but the shortcut is created.

An installer should never place a shortcut in AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch/User Pinned/Taskbar
It is against Windows Guidelines to force out a pinned shortcut on the taskbar. I know some programs do this. But that is bad and MS might block programs doing it.

Title: Re: Quick Launch Bar icon
Post by: Alanrf on December 08, 2015, 16:08:14

Yes, as you point out, it was really not to be expected.  I believe, as I noted before that the existence of the Quick Launch bar is simply an artefact of the upgrade process. Had it been a clean install of Win 10 the issue may not have arisen, of course.


Thank you for your patience and courteous responses to my queries -much appreciated.