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Separate the Start menu and task bar?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I know it's not quite what you're looking for, but on my XP installation, I use RocketDock at the bottom of the screen, the Start Menu (etc) at the top, and have my applications minimise to the dock (just as with OSX). I then add my Links folder to the taskbar, and create 'menu' item folders inside the links folder. Not a lot of people know this, but the links folder, when added as a toolbar to the taskbar, retains its properties in that folders open in a menu style rather than just linking to the folder in an explorer window. Of course, it means I don't use the Links folder in IE, but I use FF anyway, so it makes no odds to me. To do this, right-click on the taskbar, Toolbars>Links. Right-click on the new Links toolbar and un-tick Show Title - you may want to un-tick Show Text too, but you can retain the labels in order to emulate a menu bar. Right-click on the Links toolbar again and Open Folder. Delete any junk you don't want on your customised menu bar, then add folders with the names of the menu items you want available. Shortcuts and folders placed inside these folders will serve as your menu items and sub-menus. Adding a freebie like Rocket Dock to the desktop and setting the 'minimise to dock' function takes some of the clutter away from the taskbar. RKLauncher has even more functionality suited to eradicating the Taskbar, but it's no longer supported, and I like the fact that Rocket Dock gives me live thumbnails under Vista. It means my XP desktop is, cosmetically and functionally, very similar to the OSX interface, but with the running (un-minimised) applications still shown on the taskbar. Rocket Dock has a very small memory footprint and is easy on resources. The Links toolbar makes no difference to performance, and I find it easier and more responsive than the Start Menu, as I can make it any way I like, and it's not graphically intensive in the least. Also, every menu and menu iten automatically includes its own customisable mini icon, so it's not dog-ugly either. That's probably not what you're looking for at all, but perhaps it'll help. :) Loading...
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