Today I wanted to add 4D v17.0 and v17.0 HF1 to my Windows 10 taskbar. Sometimes I will have several versions of a 4D version in use and I like to have the 4D version number appear when I hover the mouse over the taskbar icon. That way I know which version I’m launching.
So how do you do that? I’ll show you so you don’t have to spend the time googling how to do it like I did once. Normally when you right click on the icon in the Windows taskbar of a running application and select “Pin to taskbar”, Windows will assign the program’s name to the taskbar icon. But when you have several version of 4D in the taskbar the names assigned are “4D”, “4D (2)”, “4D (3)” etc. Not very useful for knowing which one points to which version. Here is what my Windows 10 taskbar looks like and what I see when I hover the mouse over the 4D icons: https://www.dropbox.com/s/we8rgykyzp0lx9s/Screen%20Shot%202018-08-15%20at%209.25.02%20PM.PNG?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/kc1iqs2vywdcrhe/Screen%20Shot%202018-08-15%20at%209.17.45%20PM.PNG?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ny3ouuo3a138myz/Screen%20Shot%202018-08-15%20at%209.17.54%20PM.PNG?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/iha0l0okha8jfvx/Screen%20Shot%202018-08-15%20at%209.25.28%20PM.PNG?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/4yc6q564db4tv12/Screen%20Shot%202018-08-15%20at%209.25.35%20PM.PNG?dl=0 Here is how you can set the name that will appear when you hover over the icon in the taskbar. The programs pinned to the taskbar are stored here: %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar So copy this and paste into the address bar of a window and hit enter and this folder will open. https://www.dropbox.com/s/agswr25q7380bac/Screen%20Shot%202018-08-15%20at%209.26.21%20PM.PNG?dl=0 Shortcuts for all the pinned taskbar items are in this folder. Simply change the name of the shortcut to something meaningful and then restart Windows. You must restart Windows so that it will reload the taskbar shortcut names. Now when you hover the mouse over an icon you will know what version of 4D the icon is going to launch. Just trying to make things a little nicer in the Windows world… Tim ***************************************** Tim Nevels Innovative Solutions 785-749-3444 [email protected] ***************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
