October 2014 – Final Thoughts from IT

October 10, 2014June 23, 2017

Force Taskbar Toolbar to All Users

In my last post, I walked through the (relatively easy) steps to add a menu style Administrative Tools toolbar to the taskbar on Windows 8.1 / 2012 R2.

For a “Generic IT Tools Machine” project at my day job, we needed to make this toolbar appear for all users – without requiring them to manually perform these steps.

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October 10, 2014June 23, 2017

Adding Administrative Tools Menu to Windows 8.1 Taskbar

I know that Microsoft is bringing back the Start Menu (or some interation of it anyway) with Windows 10, and I will post some thoughts about the upcoming OS in the future, but for those of us still using Windows 8/8.1/2012/2012R2 and missing the easy accessibility to Administrative Tools you had with Windows 7 / 2008 R2 – I have a solution for you.

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