Detailed Features

You can create as many toolbars as you need and place them anywhere on your desktop. Then, each toolbar can be customized as follow:

Tasks selection

Choose which tasks to include or exclude in the taskbar.

The taskbars can display the tasks from the monitor you choose (and if you select the option, remove the button from Windows taskbar). In addition, you can choose to filter the tasks it will display at will, including or excluding any application from the tasks list.

Colors

One horizontal and three vertical toolbars with different colors.

Each toolbar can be of the defaut glass color (Windows Vista/7) or colorized with 2 colors that you choose to be identified at first sight. In Windows XP, the transparency can be set in addition of the colors.

Icons text

It is possible to show or hide the buttons' text for each individual toolbar.

Auto hide and docking

This taskbar is docked on the left-bottom side of the work area. It occupies the whole screen edge.

The toolbars can be « docked » so that no desktop icon can be behind, just as is the Windows regular taskbar.
But, even if they are not « docked », it is possible to have them « auto-hidden ».
This means that the toolbar will shrink until you hover it with the mouse. You can then save space on your desktop even if you have many toolbars with a lot of shortcuts.

Internet Explorer button is hovered by the mouse, a blue glow follows the cursor.

Firefox button is hovered by the mouse, a orange glow follows the cursor.

Explorer button is hovered by the mouse, a yellow glow follows the cursor.

Microsoft Windows 7 has introduced buttons color hot-tracking. When your mouse hovers a task button, it is colored with a button specific color computed from its icon.
Ki-Toolbar gives every Windows XP/Vista users the opportunity to get this effect on the Ki-Toolbar taskbars.

Sample toolbar with shotcuts to a folder, a web site, an application and a text file.

One of the main purpose of Ki-Toolbar is to propose toolbars in which you can add as many shortcuts as you want.
Their icon, text and execution parameters are editable.

Files

The simplest shortcut you can add is a shortcut to a file. It can then be opened from Ki-Toolbar, the associated application will be called just as Windows standards shortcuts.

Applications

As per for files, a shortcut can launch any application.

Web sites

In the same way you add shortcuts to files, you can add shortcuts to web sites. Clicking it will open the site in your favorite browser.

Folders

When hovering the folder button, its content is displayed.

In order to improve the basic shortcut to a folder, every folder shortcuts display automatically the folder contents when hovered by the mouse. It becomes then possible to open a file by simply clicking on it in the list.

Other toolbars

To make it even more powerful, you can create shortcuts to other toolbars.
Clicking on it will show / hide the toolbar, that can contain other shortcuts to toolbars, with no limit.
For example, it is easy to create a main toolbar with shortcut to a toolbar containing work shortcuts, another one to entertainment shortcuts, another one for web shortcuts, and so on ...

For your privacy, or to avoid displaying annoying task buttons, you can hide them in one click. It can be hidden from any taskbar, including Microsoft Windows main taskbar.

Each button can be colorized.

Find your favorite tasks at first glance by choosing individual task button color in the Ki-Toolbar taskbars.

You can drag and drop buttons in the taskbars to move them anywhere to always keep your main application accessible without having to seek it out.

Ki-Toolbar adds a system menu on the minimized button (right click) to access new functions.

Right click on the minimize button of any window will make this menu available.

Maximize to work area

This will maximize your application window not only to its monitor, but to the whole work area.

Move to other monitor

You can send the current window to the other monitor to arrange your windows without having to drag them accross the screens.