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A tip for Quick Launch users who sign in to Windows with MS Account:
If you are like me and you have the same drive structure on each Windows PC you use, in my case C: for installed software and Windows itself, D: for virtual machines and E: for user profiles, you can create your own Quick Launch folder in OneDrive at %userprofile%\OneDrive.
Now instead of adding the %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer folder to your taskbar, use the one on your OneDrive. Your Quick Launch will now be the same on each Windows computer, and it will be synced. The identical drive structure and install locations are important in order to find the targets for the Quick Launch toolbar shortcuts on each PC. An example: If your Chrome browser is installed on drive C: on PC1 but on drive D: on PC2, and your Quick Launch has a shortcut for it on drive C:, then on PC1 this shortcut will show the Chrome icon and launch Chrome when clicked, whereas PC2 showing the same synced Quick Launch shows an empty placeholder icon and tells you that the target can't be found.
Here's my synced Quick Launch showing what I mean. A fresh install, I have not installed Office yet on this PC, so although individual Office app shortcuts work and show real icons on other computers using this Quick Launch, on this one they still show a placeholder icon and would not work when clicked:
The same PC, same Quick Launch, it looks a bit screwed because the placeholder icons for software not yet installed:
The same OneDrive\Quick Launch toolbar on another PC where all the software is already installed:
downloaded last night
just checking it out this morn
off to bad start mail,people and calender not working and spartan not on taskbar
but task bar started at right size
have to hunt around for file to sort out mail
got mail,calendar and spartan working but people not working