How to add a toolbar to your Windows 8.1 taskbar (for example, QuickLaunch)

I personally was missing in my rather new Windows 8.1, the Quick Launch Toolbar - that used to exist in older Windows versions. So i created my own, new, custom QuickLaunch toolbar. Here's how:

Basically any valid Windows folder can become a new toolbar. So all you need to do is create a folder, wherever you wish on your hard-disk, with any name of your choice. I personally went to the Documents folder (start screen, type Documents, press enter), right-clicked and created a New -> Folder, which i have named 'QuickLaunch'.

Right-Click on an empty area of your Win 8.1 taskbar. From the menu, choose Toolbars -> New Toolbar and just select the folder of your choice - in my case it was C:\Users\luciancostin\Documents\QuickLaunchToolbar

There it goes - the toolbar already appears on our taskbar. Whatever shortcuts or programs we put in there, they will be automatically displayed (here's how to create for example, a 'show desktop' icon).
For adding my Firefox icon, i've browsed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox , right-clicked on the 'firefox' program, chose 'Create shortcut' from the context-menu, cut (ctrl+x) this shortcut, and pasted it in my newly created folder.

For further customization of the toolbar (because by default, it has a rather strange appearance, showing the title, and the names of the links in here), one must:
1. unlock the taskbar: right-click your taskbar ,make sure the 'Lock the taskbar' menu item is not checked.
2. feel free to drag the margins and the whole toolbar wherever you like it, and to your preferred size.
3. right-click the toolbar for options, uncheck the 'show title' and 'show text' menu items - to get to the original 'quicklaunch' toolbar look & feel.
4. lock back the taskbar: preferably you'd want it to stay in place, so better to lock it back. Just right-click your taskbar and check the menu item 'Lock the taskbar'

That's it! :-) our new toolbar: