Dock Quick Launch or Address Toolbar to Desktop in Vista

A popular feature in previous versions of Windows was the ability to dock a
toolbar to the side of the desktop. Most people used this for an auto-hiding
quick launch or address toolbar, or both.

To do this in Windows Vista, you'll first need to create a folder somewhere
like your user directory.

Now drag this folder all the way to either the side or the top of the screen,
and it will magically dock to the side. Make sure you drag the mouse as far to
the side as you can or else it'll just move the folder to the desktop.

Now right-click on the folder and choose Toolbars, where you can select any
toolbar registered with the system. In this example we'll choose the Quick
Launch toolbar.

And there we are… the quick launch toolbar is docked to the side, although
you will probably want to tweak it.

First, you can remove the folder that we created by right-clicking, choosing
Toolbars and then removing the selection for the folder name (in this case it
was called Toolbar)

To make the icons smaller, right-click and choose View and then Small Icons. You
could also choose to Auto Hide it if you want.

The address toolbar works much better if you dock the toolbar to the top of
the screen.

You can use this for the Google toolbar, iTunes, Windows Media Player, or
anything else that has a toolbar.