Add Icon Dividers to your Quick Launch Toolbar

By: Arie Slob

If you have a bunch of icons on your Quick Launch toolbar, it would be nice if you could place some dividers between them, to keep them more organized. Here's how:

First we need to make the divider. To do this, launch Paint (Start > Programs > Accessories > Paint)
In Paint select Attributes from the Image menu
Set the Width and Height to 16, and the Units to Pixels
Now select View > Zoom > Custom and select the 800% radio button, then click OK
Before starting to draw the image, select File > Save, and from the Save as type drop down box, select 16 Color Bitmap
Now draw the bitmap, you can use the example shown below. When you draw a bitmap in place of an icon, Windows treats the color in the bitmaps top left pixel as transparent, so any area's matching that color will be transparent (dark blue in our example).
After you save your bitmap, rename it with an .ico extension
Now right-click on your Quick Launch toolbar, and from the menu choose Open
Right-click on an empty space in the resulting Window, and select New > Text Document
Open this newly created text document, and add these lines:
[Shell]
IconFile=IconName.ico
Where IconName.ico is the full path (and name) to your icon file
Now close Notepad, and rename this text document with an extension .scf. For the name you can use anything, I called it divider.scf
Now the divider will appear on the Quick Launch toolbar. If you need more then one divider, simply copy the divider.scf file, and rename them - like divider1.scf, divider2.scf etc.

If you find that the dividers are not keeping their position after you reboot, use this trick: How to sort Shortcuts on Quick Launch Bar.

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Add Icon Dividers to your Quick Launch Toolbar