Left toolbar Win 7

If you liked my playlist idea from way back, here’s a tweak I discovered for those who want their playlist on Win 7.

You’ll realize when you drag your playlist to the left, you get the same “icon cut-off” problem just as you did on Vista. Sadly, there’s no Quick Launch to fix this. For some, keeping their playlist to the right isn’t much of a problem. For people like me who are more comfortable with a playlist to the left, the icon thing can be somewhat of a peeve.

This isn’t the end of the world. Here’s my discovery after much practice and playing around:

Unlock your taskbar. Click on the dotted lines and drag your playlist to the left if you haven’t done so already.

Right click the toolbar and uncheck Show Text and Show Title.

This should leave you with only your music icons. Shrink your toolbar as much as possible until one music file icon is showing:

Right click the toolbar again and check off Show Text and Show Title.

Lock the taskbar.

Now isn’t that much better?

This works for any toolbar where you only want the title to show. Whether or not this method works with Vista as well, I have no clue. Try and tell me if it works!

This item is no longer located in C:\

If you have an impossible to delete 0 byte file with the error message:

Could not find this item. This is no longer located in…

Open your command prompt.
Type dir /x to get the 8.3 name of the directory folder.

If, for example, your problem file is in your Download folder, the 8.3 name is DOWNLO~1.

To delete the file, type del (8.3 name)

Ex. del DOWNLO~1

You’ll be prompted to type Y (yes) or N (no) to delete the file. Be advised that all files in that folder will be deleted so keep a backup or move files you do not wish to delete elsewhere.

Also, for impossible to delete folders/files on flash drives, you can right click your removable drive and go to Format. Formatting your drive will wipe all your files. Again, keep a backup of whatever you want to keep on a different flash drive/memory card.

Select Quick format and press Start.