This tab contains a number of the basic settings and utilities.
Profiles are used to quickly move identical settings between different toolbars and quickly switch between the settings. Clicking on the button will open this menu:
“Save
current settings to a new profile...” saves current
settings to a new profile or overwrites an existing profile. True
Launch Bar will open the dialog window where it will ask you to
enter the new profile name.
“Organize profiles...” allows deleting profiles that you no longer need.
This will open the list of all available profiles. Selecting a profile on this menu will instantly load it to the toolbar.
Clicking on the “Backup” button will open the backup wizard. You can create any number of backups. The backup will create a file with the “.tlbbackup” extension. This file will contain all of the toolbar objects, except the content of the virtual folders, and all of the toolbar settings. Please note that if you have changed some objects’ icons or set overlay images, True Launch Bar will normally not save them in the backup file. If you want your icons and overlay images to be saved in the backup file, you must enable the “Save with toolbar” option when you change the icons and / or overlay images. Thus, True Launch Bar will copy the necessary files to the toolbar folder and add them to the backup file when it is created.
The “Restore” button opens the Restore from Backup wizard, where you will be asked to select a backup file.
IMPORTANT! Restoring a toolbar from backup, will remove all the toolbar content and replace it with the backup data. If you have made any changes since the last backup operation, those changes will be discarded.
Clicking on this button will launch True Launch Bar Components Manager, which will help you check for updates and install the latest True Launch Bar and its components. You can also use the manager to delete unnecessary components.
This feature allows setting a password to protecting your True Launch Bar settings. The same password is to be entered twice. Once the password is set, True Launch Bar will prompt you to enter the password every time you attempt to open the settings window. If you enter an incorrect password, True Launch Bar will deny access to the settings window.
This group of settings allows managing the locking of buttons on the toolbar and within menus:
“Lock buttons” – Locks all objects on the toolbar and within menus. Objects cannot be moved while they are locked.
“Allow locking from context menu” – Adds the “Lock Buttons” item to the context menu.
“Ask settings password” – If the settings password is enabled, selecting this option will have True Launch Bar ask you to enter the password when you attempt to lock or unlock buttons.
“Allow locking for single folder” – If this option is disabled, buttons will be locked on both all menus and the toolbar. Enabling this option will let you lock buttons for menus and the toolbar individually.
Loading virtual folders in background will let you avoid the temporary lockout of the taskbar while a virtual folder with large number of files is loading. If this option is disabled, the taskbar will be unavailable while True Launch Bar is reading the content of the folder. Sometimes that time can be quite long, especially with the large folders. If you enable loading virtual folders in background, True Launch Bar will display “Loading folder content…”, but you will be able to close the menu being loaded and continue using other menus while the content is loading.
Accelerator is a letter or character to be used for accessing an item instantly; that letter or character is underlined. To access an item with an accelerator, you will need to press the ALT+accelerator shortcut. To create an accelerator for a menu item, just rename it and add the & character before the accelerator letter.
Example:
Rename “Microsoft Word” to “Microsoft &Word”,
and True Launch Bar will display that button as “Microsoft Word”. Thus, you will be able to launch Word instantly
by simply pressing the ALT+W shortcut on the keyboard.
To add the & character to an item name, just add another & character, i.e. type “&&”.
This option enables or disables changing file type (extension) when a file is renamed. When this option is enabled, True Launch Bar will only ask you to enter the file name during renaming, and the extension of the file will remain unchanged.
This option is available to virtual folders only. When it is enabled, shortcuts to the default folders are expanded to menus. Anyway, you can explicitly enable or disable expanding a shortcut to menu for each individual shortcut through the context menu. Thus, you can create virtual folders within other virtual folders.
This option works jointly with our freeware utility, StartKiller (http://www.tordex.com/startkiller). StartKiller removes the Start button from the taskbar. If the “Disable Start Menu” option in StartKiller is enabled, it will redirect the WIN key press to True Launch Bar with enabled “Process WIN Key” option, and True Launch Bar will open the first menu on the toolbar. Thus, you can emulate the Start menu and manage its behavior.
Enables saving icons and overlay images with the toolbar by default. When this option is enabled, True Launch Bar will save icons with the toolbar by default.
The Recent menu is a special menu that registers shortcuts to programs and documents launched through True Launch Bar. This parameter allows you to specify the maximum number of shortcuts that may appear on the Recent menu.
This setting allows managing the showing and hiding of the “hidden” files in virtual folders. It may accept the following values:
Default: True Launch Bar will use Windows settings and show hidden files the way they appear in Windows Explorer.
Always: True Launch Bar will always show hidden files.
Never: True Launch Bar will never show hidden files.