QuickLaunchPE is an easy configurable QuickLaunch-Bar for BartPE-Shells, which do not support desktop icons, e.g. nu2menu

Features:
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- max 16 buttons (flat or 3-D style, conf. in QuickLaunch.ini)
- auto arranging
- max. icon size = 32x32
- single or double click launching
- ctrl-alt-q brings the QuickLaunch-Bar to forground, if it is behind an app-window
- automatic rebuild after screen-resolution changes
- supported systemvariables: %SystemDrive%, %SystemRoot%, %Temp% and %Tmp%

more details here
download the plugin from my website (all files included)

Example: nu2menu Desktop with QuickLaunchPE:


fuwi

Interesting.

Is the Bar's background set to blue? Not everyone keeps the default BartPE background. If it was transparent it could go over any background.

@Ed_P

Any background can be used. The Bar's background is captured from the BartPE background.
This is the default setting in QuickLaunchPE.ini (BackgroundColor=auto). Alternatively you can set it to a fixed color.



Here some other examples with other backgrounds:


This is with 3-D style buttons (conf. in QuickLaunch.ini):


fuwi

Nice plugin and easy to set up! I have troubles launching TrueCrypt from QuickLaunch Bar. I added to TrueCrypts Inf file



but when I click on the Icon, TrueCrypt is telling me "Error: TrueCrypt driver not found. Please copy the files 'truecrypt.sys' and truecrypt-x64.sys' to the directory where the main TrueCrypt application (TrueCrypt.exe) is located".

If I start TrueCrypt from the shell menu it is working well, and after started it one time from there, I can start it from QuickLaunch Bar, too. Any ideas how to fix it? I tried already to submit the working directory in the SetValue section, too.

Another question: Is it possible to start QuickLaunch Bar automatically?

@jack_steel

There is a autostart for the QuickLaunch bar in the plugin: autorun_QuickLaunchPE.cmd
but this works only in nu2menu with the autorun plugin.
If you are using XPE, there ist a xpe_autorun plugin here: http://smithii.com/files/plugins/xpe_autorun.zip
(or use xpe's own mechanism for autostarting QuickLaunchPE.exe)

An other hint: make shure that the QuickLaunchPE plugin is processed first in your PEBuilder: rename the foldername to '!!QuickLaunchPE'

For your TrueCrypt problem i have no solution at the moment, i must first reproduce the problem in my build.

fuwi

I used this TrueCrypt Plugin. Thank you for investigating!

Cheers from Austria
Jack

@jack_steel

added this to TrueCrypts inf file, then it works:

[SetValue]
"QuickLaunchPE.ini", "TrueCrypt", "Executable", "%SystemDrive%\Programs\TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.cmd"
"QuickLaunchPE.ini", "TrueCrypt", "Icon", "%SystemDrive%\Programs\TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe"

fuwi

Thanks a lot!

@jack_steel

a recommendation for the TrueCrypt plugin:

replace the original file association:

with this syntax:

otherwise you cannot open TrueCrypt containers (.tc) with doubleclick, if they have blanks in the filename (e.g 'my secret infos.tc')

fuwi

Thank you for your fast help! Everything worked, I had the Startup Plugin disabled now autorun is working well.

Thank you for your plugin fuwi. Mainly I use XPE on all my DVDs, but I still use Nu2Menu on some of my basic CDs and this plugin is great.