Ok, there has to be some easy way to do this. I dont know what modules I need, or what lines of code I need to run. But all I want is somewhere on my screen, create the equivelant of a quicklaunch bar. A whole bunch of little icons that represent the programs I use most. I have about 10 programs I have to open and close constantly all day.
Or if someone knows of a nice clean skin that does this. It boggles my mind how many themes have winamp bars on them, while so few have any form of shortcuts. I dont want to have to open up a start menu and go to quicklaunch for the same reason people dont want to have to click on their winamp. Please help. Im sorry if I sound frustrated. But I switched to litestep because Explorer just kept hanging on me. And our network administrator dosent seem to think its much of a problem. I really dont want to have to switch back.

There is a lsquickbox-1.51 in shellfront.org, a liteStep module which imitate the quick lauch box in explorer taskBar. All that you need is play around with it.

You can also use IconDesk. Assuming you used Omar's installer and still have a stock configuration for LS - just point an IconDesk group at your IE quicklaunch folder.

*IconDeskFolder $quicklaunch$

Then set Icondesk to activate on single click, remove the shorcut labels and text, small icons. Instant quicklaunch folder. My first "for public consumption" theme has this setup, and I will be posting it today or tomorrow.

Check out the LiteGnome4 theme. It's a great theme and has 3 lslnk menus that work very well.

I will have to check that out Funkyd00d. I just uploaded my theme, captive. Like I said, it my first and my testing facilities are limited =) I built it to suit my work needs (and because I've become addicted to tinkering with modules), but it is pretty general purpose.