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by maine pc

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We have Windows XP Professional with three user accounts set up. On my account, I customized the Quick Launch toolbar by going to Start, All Programs, Microsoft Office, then dragging the icons for Word and Excel to the Quick Launch toolbar. They show up on my Quick Launch, but they no longer show up under Start-All Programs-Microsoft Office on my account or the other two accounts. If the actual programs were moved to the Quick Launch, I?m afraid that if I delete them from Quick Launch, they will be deleted from the computer. Another computer I use has the icons both in the Quick Launch toolbar and in the Start menu.

Can I return the icons (programs?) to the Start-All Programs-Microsoft Office menu without uninstalling and reinstalling MS Office?

How do I add items to the Quick Launch without removing them from the Start menu?

Can each user?s Quick Launch toolbar be customized with the icons they want, and still keep them available for the other users?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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by seanferd

Dragging with the left mouse button defaults to Move. Drag with the right mouse button instead, and when you drop, you'll be given a choice. Select Copy. (The programs have not moved, only the shortcuts. Programs are still in a subfolder of C:\Program Files\)

To put these back in the Start menu, drag and drop with the right mouse button as described. You want to drag the shortcuts onto the Start button and wait until the menu opens. Then onto Programs, then Microsoft Office, then drop them in the Office list. Again, select Copy, not Move.

by older mycroft

If you go into your QuickLaunch Menu and right-click any of the entries, then select 'Delete' - you will see a popup telling you that you are only deleting the icon, NOT the program.

To fully delete the entire program you would have to invoke the 'Add / Remove Programs' window. So if any user ever did delete an entry from the QuickLaunch menu, the program it represents would still remain installed on the computer.

All you would then need to do is navigate to the program executable from Windows Explorer, right-click on it, then select 'Create Shortcut' or 'Send to Desktop' and then drag it back into the QuickLaunch menu. :)

by seanferd

Sounds like an exam or some type of recreational activity. :0

by thumbsup2

Everyone else answered most of your questions. I'll give the last one a try.

"Can each user's Quick Launch toolbar be customized with the icons they want, and still keep them available for the other users?"

Yes, but ONLY if you right click/drag the icons from the start menu to the quick launch, then select COPY when you release the mouse and a menu pops up. If you left click and drag them there, you are actually moving them, removing them in the process from the "All Users's" start menu and thus making them ONLY available to you from YOUR quick launch toolbar.

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