mark lewis wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

WC>> I certainly think so. The _only_ reason I got this machine was the
WC>> technically inept individual who owned this machine added all her
WC>> software to the taskbar "quick start" _feature_ which
used up her
WC>> machines resources and slowed it to a crawl.

RJT> I've seen desktops like that.  Way too often.

WC>> I've about 10 items in quick start amd 73 percent available
WC>> resources, to date the lowest figure I've seen and it runs well.

RJT> I don't keep *anything* there.  Only icon that shows up in the
RJT> taskbar in the 98 box here is the little speaker,  for the
RJT> volume control.

ml> that's the system tray...

Oh,  is it?  I never was sure.

ml> the quicklaunchbar is part of the taskbar... the quicklaunchbar has 
ml> small icons like the desktop icons but it only takes one click to 
ml> start them vs. double click on the desktop (unless you're running 
ml> set up like everything's a single click link)...

That's the other thing,  what you call it and how it works seems to depend
on where you put it?

Can you tell I have not spent a whole lot of time messing with that stuff? 
:-)  Excepting to remove a bunch of "stuff" I didn't want,  when
I could...

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