A downside to this however, is that this is going to eat into more resources, which 
as we all know are at a premium in Windows 9x.





On Friday, August 30, 2002 at 9:52 am, EUDAIMONIA wrote:
>I have the ultimate solution to Make 
>Control Panel Applets More Accessible:

>
>Right click on your toolbar. Select Toolbars drop down menu and click on New Toolbar. 
>Now select Control Panel. 
>
>The control panel is now a component of your toolbar.
>However this can be sort of cluttery, but this too can be fixed and presents an 
opportunity 
>to allow you to quickly navigate your entire computer with single mouse clicks.
>
>After adding the control panel to your toolbar, you can click (but do not release) 
>on the control panel segment and drag it to the middle of your desktop. Now you 
should 
>have a free floating window. Now click and drag the window to any other edge of 
your 
>desktop and you should notice that it will become a toolbar.
>
>I personally have a toolbar on all four corners of my screen and you can right click 
>each one and select auto-hide and always on top so that you maximize your screen 
>real estate (very nice) and you can easily get to your control panel just by moving 
>your mouse to that toolbar, it will automatically fly out to its open position, 
and 
>you are set to select your component.
>
>I included segements for My Documents, MP3's, Favourites, an Address Bar, Windows 
>folder, Control Panel, Program Files folder, UnrealTournament folder, etc... All 
>of which is hidden from view, but I just move my mouse to the edge of the screen 
>that has what I'm looking for and "voila". I'm ready to rock and haven't even clicked 
>a thing yet. You can even set your Active Desktop to View as a Web Page (right click 
>desktop) and go to folder options and select the views tab and under Visual Settings 
>select hide desktop icons when viewed as a web page and then add the desktop to 
one 
>of your toolbars (as i did). 
>
>Windows blows on stability, but it sure is configurable as this is just the beginning 
>of what you can do. You can even launch programs from shortcuts that YOU define, 
>and then some.
>
>Anyone interested in learning more about really configuring your Windoze box can 
>email me at eudaimonia@c4.com 
>thx.

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