This is a workaround for the Win 10 Taskbar folder menues that are missing in Win11:
Display a folder in the taskbar notify-tray and add one or more directorys for quick access
Left-Click opens either Single-Folder:
or Multiple-Folders:
right-click on folder or file opens the (old) windows context-menue
double-click on folder opens the folder in windows-explorer
double-click on file opens the file with the associated programm
Right-Click on the task-bar icon for context-menue:
Settings-Menue:
You can change the default Task-Bar-Icon (reset with click on "default icon)
Menue-Options:
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show tooltips with info about filetype,creation time, modification time and size
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show file extensions
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show hidden files
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use small icons with 16x16 pixel - default is 20x20
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Add folder with "add folder" button
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change the order by selecting one row (by clicking on the row-header!) and moving it with the up/down arrows on the right side
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change the icon of the folder --> double-click on the folder icon
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reset the folder-icon to the default icon by selecting the icon and pressing "default icon"
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change the display-name of the folder --> select the name, edit the text in the text-box below and press the "set name" button
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delete the folder by selecting it by clicking on the row-header and presseing " delete folder"
minimize/hide settings window by clicking on button top-right corner
Issues:
The first time the menue opens, opening subfolders may be very slow.
(This seems to be a windows problem, as this also was the case with the former windows 10 taskbar-folder menue
This also happens when adding a folder to the quicklinks in the openShell start-menue
Interestingly it 'seems' not to be happening when using a root-folder like C:\ ?)
The programm uses the win32API call SHGetFileInfo wich is already faster than System.Drawing.Icon.ExtractAssociatedIcon - seems like the fileinfos get cached by the system and therefore the second call is faster
Take a look here for more backgroundinfo
One optimisation could be to first load the file-list without icons and load the icons and file-info in a second background task...
UPDATE: Tried to update the icons in a background task - unfortunately this is way much slower for whatever reasons
Hope this is useful!
Cheers, Stephanowicz