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Exploring Your Options
Personalizing your desktop
Personalizing your desktop
Your desktop is your virtual workspace. This section explains how
to customize its features for the way you like to work. You can
customize the following aspects of the desktop:
Taskbar—which resources to display for quick access
Active Desktop
always display
Desktop style—how windows are displayed and how to
browse folders and files
Toolbars—what information appears at the top of each
window
Customizing the taskbar
As you work, the taskbar changes to reflect what you are doing. Its
icons provide shortcuts to programs, documents, files, folders,
system features, and components. Open applications also have
Forward and Backward buttons to allow navigation through
folders, documents, and Web sites.
For example, you can personalize the taskbar to include not only
Quick Launch icons, but also your favorite URL addresses or local
folders and programs.
DEFINITION: URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator,
which is the address that defines the route to a file on the
Web or any other Internet facility. Generically, it is known as
the World Wide Web site address.
Having a list of favorite URLs handy saves time. Using it bypasses
the need for you to launch your browser first.
To access all taskbar options, point to an empty space in the
taskbar and click the secondary button to customize your setting.
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—what information from the Internet to
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