Add Quick Launch toolbar in Win 7 and change icon size

When I moved to windows 7 from xp, the first thing I notices that quick launch bar was missing. Below you can find the way to add quicklaunch bar.

Adding Quick launch bar

• Right click on the taskbar and uncheck the "Lock the taskbar"
• Right click again and select Toolbars >> New Toolbar..
• Add your appdata folder which is located at:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
Which should redirect to
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Now you are done with adding the quick launch bar.

Quick launch looking like windows XP
Right click on the Quick Launch
Uncheck “show text” and “show title”
Drag the Quick Launch to the position where it is available in Windows XP.

To change the size:
Right click again and select “Wiew” and then” Large Icons” or “Small Icons” to select size of icon of your choice.

Internet explorer IE9 64-bit stopped working after Windows update in win7

If you have recently made changes or updated your PC and your IE9 has stopped working then you may try the following steps to solve the problem.

1. Goto Control panel
2. Click Internet Options in Network and Internet
3. Click the Advanced tab, and then browse to the Accelerated graphics (Top).
4. Click to select the Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering check box.
5. Click Apply, and then click OK.
6. Restart Internet Explorer 9.

It should work now.

You may also try the similar steps if your other browsers like Firefox, chrome etc is facing the similar problems.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: iexplore.exe
Application Version: 9.0.8112.16421
Application Timestamp: 4d76255d
Fault Module Name: StackHash_a7aa
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: a7aa
Additional Information 2: a7aaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Additional Information 3: a7aa
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