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It would be very good to add a autohotkey gui as a toolbar in the taskbar is this possible or could it be made possible?

You could have an always-on-top window that sits on top of the taskbar. You could even make such a window an on-screen display (transparent background) as demonstrated in one of the examples at the bottom of the Gui page.

Or you could use the duct-tape solution: create a folder; put that folder on the taskbar (rightclick taskbar, click "toolbars"->"add toolbar"); in that folder, put a bunch of shortcuts to your .ahk scripts with commandline parameters set to tell the cript what they are meantto do, and icons set to show the user.

This will look like your quicklaunch toolbar.

You can dynamically create more scripts or links in there, or change the icons of shortcuts, and the taskbar menu will update (after a brief pause). Rightclick the toolbar to change properties: You can have it show or hide filenames, use large/small icons, and show or hide the foldername as a title for the toolbar. The filename, or shortcut comment if any, will appear as a tooltip when mouseovered. You can tie hotkeys to activate the script either using ahk or the shortcut properties: the latter seems more sensible.

Ordering is last-in, last-listed.

So, if you wanted a collection of desktops, then creating a bunch of .ico file miniaturised screengrabs in dir 1, and a bunch of script shortcuts in dir2, would let you show all your virtual desktops as icins, regularly updates to show the screen layout.

Advantage: nothing needs to be running when you're not switching between desktops.

Disadvantage: really crap way of doing it.

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Well I decided to make a small bar over the taskbar. I have a pretty big screen and very high resolution so I think I can afford it. Another way that could be cool is to use DesktopSidebar. It has a plugin that can capture other windows like a AutoHotKey guis.

I did not know how flexible this private toolbar solution is. Thanks Dewi! With its multi level structure it really speeds up the navigation. I don't think it is "really crap way of doing it".

It's pretty quick until it gets really loaded up and allows scrolling. Then it can really drag its ...

If you haven't tried already, you can also add "My Computer" to the taskbar to browse to folders/files on any drive.

I believe the multilevel thing is an XP feature. Drives/folders on the bar open explorer on my win2k box.

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Multilevel works ok on Win2k Pro here (unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by multilevel)... Right-click on taskbar, go to Toolbars->New Toolbar... then select a folder and click Ok... If the folder selected has subfolders you can browse the subfolders also...

Ah, ok: I've modified the default action of folders to be "explore", not "open". So if the folder that's used as a toolbar has subfolders, then clicking on them in the toolbar will open explorer. So long as that's my fault, and not a win2k thing, then fair enough :)

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Ah, that makes sense. I think... I don't have to click on the folder here though. I just hold the mouse on it for a second then the contents show. Similar to using the Start menu. Do the subfolders have an arrow next to them for you?

Nope.

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When I make it always on top the taskbar still becomes on top of it when I click it. Is there any way around this?

Out of curiosity, are you running Win2k?

No I am running XP SP2 maybe I should have said that..

Do you have a bit of code to share that we could play with ?