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-Tordex
-4.2
-www.truelaunchbar.com
-April 19, 2007
- 1 068 person
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True Launch Bar draws on the strengths of MS Windows, making a better use of its controls and technologies. Its close integration with Windows Explorer makes a thoughtful use of the system resources. Its support for Drag-n-Drop helps quickly fill the menus with shortcuts. The program utilizes the benefit of XP Visual Styles to the full extent. True Launch Bar helps you harness the system and use its strengths.
True Launch Bar offers a system of shortcuts far more superior than Quick Launch. Arranged into menus, they are just the same as folders in the Explorer window. The dropdown menus appear on the taskbar alongside other icons. The menus can be set to display the details and thumbnails of each item. You can make any existing folder into a menu, or pool files together and group them under separators. Using the list of predefined folders you can, for instance, make My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, etc. into menus.
The hallmark system of switching toolbars allows changing the choice of shortcuts with the change of an active application. For example, if you use extra resources while working with MS Office, you can create a special toolbar with shortcuts to all the resources. The shortcuts will appear in the taskbar every time an Office applet is launched.
Not only does True Launch Bar provide comfort of use, but also adds polish to your system. With its help you can dress the taskbar with overlay images and skins. You can customise its colour scheme; add gradient and transparency effects. Its plug-ins will equip your taskbar with a news reader and the weather forecast. From the taskbar you will be able to monitor resources and network activities, access the address book and control media playback. There are over a score of useful plug-ins available from Tordex web site http://www.tordex.com. True Launch Bar is the taste of pleasure that you can and ought to relish.

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Philip Goddard(beginner) 3 months ago 
Amazing! At a glance my Quick Launch bar (in Windows Vista) looks much the same as it did before I installed True Launch Bar, but that unassuming appearance says nothing of the confusion of desktop icons that I'd cleared out and organized into an intuitively arranged system of menus that are revealed through hovering my mouse over any of those Quick Launch icons on my taskbar. I've tried or looked at quite a range of Windows program launchers, and True Launch Bar appears to me to be by far the best.

Yes, there are Windwos program launchers that look superficially just as good, BUT the ones that I've seen all consume considerable memory / resources, whereas True Launch Bar and also its free version consume very little resource because it uses the native Quick Launch bar system, just adding almost unbelievable functionality and configurability to it. It can be used as a replacement for the Start button, though I personally see no point in doing that. Rather, one can have different things in the two menu systems.

Fully recommended!
Guest #467807(beginner) Last year 
be careful !!! ... 4.2.0 is still the latest official release. 4.2.5 is beta and already replaced by 4.2.6 which is beta too !!
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