Make PowerBar total transparent, if you choose the same background bitmap as the background,
and set border's to none. it will look like PowerBar items is sitting on the background. This
only works if you have PowerBar located at the top or the left corner.


If you check 'Enable browse menu on all items with sub items' , and right click a drive icon
or a folder , you get a browse submenu , where you are able to se the constent of the folder.

If you right click a Special item like 'Control Panel' you are able to move or add the icon
to the tray.

All items you make on the desktop you are able to add from the 'Add special items' dialog box.

You can add shell objects directly from the setup dialog , if a shell object you want is not
There you are able to use it anyway. Create a dummy folder , and create a shortcut to the
shell object , you are able to drag the shortcut to the toolbar. From version 1.10 PowerBar
is able to launch shell objects.


If you drag a shortcut to PowerBar, and later deletes that shortcut, then PowerBar
is not able to find your shortcut and it will not be able to execute the program ,
before deleting the shortcut , choose 'Resolve Shortcut' in PowerBar this will make
the program point to the original and not the shortcut.


If you drag a file to a PowerBar item , it will launch the item with the dropped object
as parameters , sow you can drag/drop a document/text/multimedia file directly to your
applications in PowerBar.


When you have a application running in a virtual desktop,the icon is marked with red.


You can place PowerBar in the title area like you can with the office pro , just go
into the setup dialog in PowerBar and choice 'Enable PowerBar to be anywhere' , you
are now able to resize , and place PowerBar in the title area.


Do your mouse pointer flash each second , then change to the default windows mouse pointer,
or turn the analog clock off.


Disable your screen saver when you are doing large jobs , like defragmenting your
harddisk or rendering pictures , there are nothing as annoying as a screen saver swapping
memory to disk and forcing the defrag to start over , or a screen saver taking all the
CPU cycles when you need them for rendering a picture.
Before doing a large job just right click PowerBar and click 'Disable screen saver',
when the job are over just right click PowerBar and click 'Enable screen saver'.


Drag/Drop all your favorite sound files to the Multimedia drop target , and save them in
a playlist 'Save current playlist' , you now has instant access to all your favorite sound
files , just right click the multimedia drop target.

Left click the multimedia icon to play the next song in the playlist-cdrom.