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tjackenpacken / taskbar-groups

Lightweight utility for organizing the taskbar through groups
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Shortcut/exe/lnk #93

Open CE-McD opened 3 years ago

CE-McD commented 3 years ago

Suggestion: Tutorial on accessing shortcuts/exe/links, etc. Win 10 is making it a challenge. :)

vertigo220 commented 3 years ago

This is pretty basic knowledge and nothing new with W10. You just need to find the program's exe in Program Files, Program Files (x86), or, very rarely, in another location. There are a few ways you can do this, aside from just knowing where stuff is and navigating to it manually, of course. Probably the easiest would be to use a program like Everything--which is very useful to have anyways--and search for the program, right-click it and select "Copy Full Name to Clipboard" then in taskbar-groups (TG) add new shortcut and when the window opens, click in the file name box, paste, and hit ok. The second way is to search the start menu for the program, right-click it in the start menu, go to more > open file location, then in the window that opens select and copy the path in the top bar and click add new shortcut in TG and click in the top bar and paste the path and hit enter, then select the exe in the file list. The third way is to open a command prompt (start > type command or cmd > enter), type (without quotes) "cd /d c:\" then "where /r . appname.exe" and copy/paste the path and do as above, but this method requires you to know the exe name, though you can use wildcards (e.g. "where /r fire*.exe").

CE-McD commented 3 years ago

I am able to find programs easily. The culprit for me is finding apps like Paint 3D etc.

Also, I tried to change the default 6 to 4 and now it only shows 4 shortcuts, even though I've switch it back to 6?