Win10 Toolbars: is text to icons possible?

I am curious to know if the text can be changed to icons only or even include icons. Cannot stand seeing all that toolbar text... If it's even possible or i'll just get TrueLaunchbar

I was looking into achieving this a few years ago. At the time, the best I could find was this app: 7stacks

10TonTek said:

I am curious to know if the text can be changed to icons only or even include icons. Cannot stand seeing all that toolbar text... If it's even possible or i'll just get TrueLaunchbar

Inside the folder you wish to use as a toolbar, create a 'bogus' shortcut (1) that points to the folder itself, name it nothing by holding Alt and type 0160 on the numeric keypad release and press Enter, give it a desired icon;
next, unlock Taskbar, hover on partition marker til you see a double sided arrow then right click to bring up the aux. menu, uncheck Show Text/Show Title (2,3), use Large Icons if you wish (4)(your taskbar gets really thick though!), Lock Taskbar (5)

Clicking on that shortcut would just launch an explorer window, correct? Clicking the chevrons will give you the folder's contents in the form of a menu. I think that's the goal, but with an icon instead of chevrons and no text.

Pretty sure it's not possible without a 3rd party app.

Michael said:

Clicking on that shortcut would just launch an explorer window, correct? Clicking the little arrows he's currently using will give you the folder's contents in a menu.

Unless you Shift/right click on the folder in question, 'Copy As Path' and paste that as the shortcut path.

Yes.

Michael said:

Clicking on that shortcut would just launch an explorer window, correct? Clicking the chevrons will give you the folder's contents in the form of a menu. I think that's the goal, but with an icon instead of chevrons and no text.

Pretty sure it's not possible without a 3rd party app.

K, if you want icons only, no text and eliminate the chevrons, you'll need to create shortcuts of all desired destinations, put them in a custom folder and use that folder as the toolbar, then expand the toolbar til the chevrons disappear.

Right, but they're still just shortcuts to explorer windows, not pop-up menus with the folder's contents as the chevrons currently provide. Again, the goal is menus, not windows.

Michael said:

Right, but they're still just shortcuts to explorer windows, not pop-up menus with the folder's contents as the chevrons currently provide. Again, the goal is menus, not windows.

Well, the OP didn't mention anything about transforming chevrons into 'jumplist' icons. If you can figure out how 3rd party apps do it, let me know!