solidworks & the windows 7 taskbar
December 7, 2009 2 Comments
If you are one of the early adopters of Windows 7 you have probably already fell in love with the new taskbar design. It gives you a built in dock type feature so that you can quickly access and launch your favorite programs.
Well, Darin Grosser, a former AE Model Mania winner, has posted about how to add SolidWorks to the new Windows 7 taskbar AND have it act like the rest of the programs you can add. The problem that he was seeing and that I have seen is that you could add the button to the taskbar but when you clicked it to launch SolidWorks it would open another instance of it instead of launching that icon. To see the correct way to add SolidWorks to the taskbar read his blog post. Follow the link below.
SolidWorks Icon on the Windows 7 Taskbar – DASI Solutions Blog
Nice… I haven’t gotten SolidWorks installed on my Win7 box yet.
I wonder if this odd behavior is related to another SolidWorks shortcut issue that has puzzled me.
The icon that gets put into the Quick Launch toolbar in XP and Vista always acts differently than the Desktop or Start Menu shortcut…for instance, if you installed from an image and that image was updated with a Service Pack, your install would update automatically if launched from the Desktop or Start Menu. If you launched from the Quick Launch toolbar, it would just run SolidWorks. I never could figure out why that was…
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