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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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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AMEN, Michael!!
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On Friday, August 30, 2002 at 11:04 am, Michael wrote:
>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.
>



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