I unfortunately must still use dial-up internet.
Being impossible to get my dial-up shortcut from the desktoponto the taskbar of my new Windows 8 laptop, I followed the tutorial to addQuick Launch toolbar to the taskbar, and successfully moved the shortcut tothere.
With Vista, XP etc, one click on Quick Launch toolbarshortcut icon would open this “Connect TPG” window shown below. You then justclicked <Dial> button to connect directly to the ISP.
(Note: TPG is the name of the ISP)

However, with my Windows 8, three mouse operations all overthe screen are required to arrive at this window:
1. You click the Quick Launch shortcut icon and the Charmssidebar opens.
2. Then you have to select the ISP under the Connections header,which causes a <Connect> button to pop up.
3. Which when clicked finally brings you to the above“Connect TPG” window”.
Hardly a quick launch I would suggest !!
Can somebody please advise how to open this window directlyfrom the Quick Launch toolbar or how to pin a shortcut to the taskbar toachieve the same outcome?
NB, pinning “Network Connections” shortcut to taskbar is notthe answer, as you still then required to the go through the same 3 operationsmentioned above.
For further info, the properties window of the dial-up shortcut is shown below.
The target string is: {BA126AD7-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}

Thanking you
Being impossible to get my dial-up shortcut from the desktoponto the taskbar of my new Windows 8 laptop, I followed the tutorial to addQuick Launch toolbar to the taskbar, and successfully moved the shortcut tothere.
With Vista, XP etc, one click on Quick Launch toolbarshortcut icon would open this “Connect TPG” window shown below. You then justclicked <Dial> button to connect directly to the ISP.
(Note: TPG is the name of the ISP)

However, with my Windows 8, three mouse operations all overthe screen are required to arrive at this window:
1. You click the Quick Launch shortcut icon and the Charmssidebar opens.
2. Then you have to select the ISP under the Connections header,which causes a <Connect> button to pop up.
3. Which when clicked finally brings you to the above“Connect TPG” window”.
Hardly a quick launch I would suggest !!
Can somebody please advise how to open this window directlyfrom the Quick Launch toolbar or how to pin a shortcut to the taskbar toachieve the same outcome?
NB, pinning “Network Connections” shortcut to taskbar is notthe answer, as you still then required to the go through the same 3 operationsmentioned above.
For further info, the properties window of the dial-up shortcut is shown below.
The target string is: {BA126AD7-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}

Thanking you