In most modern versions of Windows (going back to Windows 98 and maybe even Windows 95 with the extra add-ons installed) you can add extra toolbars to your Taskbar, like the Address Bar, Links, maybe even the hated Language Bar. I’ve never been a fan of these, personally, but working in IT these days is about accommodating the way your users work, not trying to shovel your own way of doing things down their throats 🙂 Getting additional toolbars to work correctly with the default Environment Manager Personalization configuration requires a very small settings change, however.
The default set of available Taskbar toolbars are shown in the screenshot below
If you’re using Personalization with Environment Manager (or, if you’re old school, maybe Registry Hiving actions to save settings), you may notice that these additional toolbars don’t get persisted properly. This is because the Registry key that saves these isn’t present in Session Data by default. You’ll need to add this key to Session Data (or Desktop Settings, if you’re still on an EM version prior to 8.0.959), or configure an additional Registry Hiving action, if you are still not using Personalization (why, why, wouldn’t you?)
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop
Once you add this in, your toolbars should be virtualized and persisted along with the rest of your user’s settings.
A quick update – I haven’t tested this in 8.3 EM yet, so there’s a chance it may be fixed in the latest version. I’m doing some work on 8.3 later on today though (hopefully!) so I will update the post when I’ve checked.
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