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Microsoft Windows 7 Tutorials
User Experience / The New Taskbar pt. 1
Subtitles of the Movie (Microsoft Windows 7 / User Experience / The New Taskbar pt. 1)
Now let's talk about the Taskbar. The Taskbar got a lot of attention in Windows 7 and a lot of people at first don't like it, but then slowly learn to like it and once they start learning to like it they become addicted to it really quickly. First time I saw this thing I'm like I don't know about this but I absolutely love this thing now, OK? So let's talk about it. Before we do that let me show you one thing, another little tip, there's going to be tips and tricks all through this course because I just cannot remember them enough to get them all organized together, OK? I've tried and tried, trust me. But when I did the Desktop Video, a little bit later, there's a video called the Desktop and tried to hit on a lot of these things. If you remember we have a Theme up here that's giving us a number of these Desktop Pictures. Well if I don't like this one, if that one looks kind of hot and uncomfortable for me today I can right-click on the Desktop and choose Next Background and change it to another one and I'll say well that's not much better for me, ah there we go that's kind of cool. But I can change those things just by right-clicking, OK? So now let's get to the Taskbar. What's happening with the Taskbar down here, its in the same location as it was before except that the Quick Launch is gone. What we do now is we will actually Pin things to the Taskbar. But notice when something is on the Taskbar I can just simply left-click on it, one click and it picks it up ok and put it, it opens the program up OK, just like the old Quick Launch. Now on the right side I have my Notifications and if I mouse over everything it shows me what's going on with these. If I click the little Hidden Icons I can see what's hidden OK, and I can get to things here or I can click Customize and I can determine what shows on the notification. I can hide notifications or I can only show notifications, so when something happens it will appear, OK? And you'll notice there's quite a few things that I have to choose from here and it's totally up to you how you want that to look, OK? Now let's talk about what we can do with this Taskbar. First of all you're going to notice just on the end style you'll see a couple of things down here, the Libraries are down here and let's just talk about that. Notice if I Mouse Over this I see two things and what that's telling me is that I have two things opened, OK? So let me close this. I'll close My Computer OK, and I'll close Libraries. Now when I Mouse Over this nothing happens, OK? Well if I click this it will open to Libraries OK, which is very similar to My Documents, we'll talk about those later and if I minimize that now notice it goes down here, OK? But if I open that back up or let's say that I come over and open My Computer OK, that is also part of that and after I minimize that, you'll notice that it goes down there to that, OK? Now notice that if down Shift and click the Taskbar it opens another instance and now I have two instances open and if I Mouse Over the Taskbar down here I see both of those. And I can go to whichever one and notice as I move back and forth the other one becomes transparent, the one that I'm not pointing at, OK? Got that? And notice I can close one from down here. Pretty cool right? Well let's talk about some other things and let me show you something right quick. If I open for example Firefox OK, and this is Google, OK? And then if I go down here and say File, New Window OK, notice I now have two Firefoxes Open, OK? So let's just say that I go to Microsoft.com and now if I Mouse Over this I can see there's Google and there's Microsoft.com and by moving back and forth I'm changing up on my screen again and I can close the Microsoft.com from right here and I'm back to the Google one, OK? Now a couple of other things that I can do, I can right-click on these and I can see Pinned Information or Jump, this is called a Jump Menu, OK? And I'll show you some cool things that we can do with that off the Taskbar in just a couple seconds here OK? But now let's talk about, well I want to get something on the Taskbar and use it. Well if I go grab my Microsoft Office Word, right-click it and say Pin to Taskbar and you will notice it shows up down here now. So all I have to do to open Word is simply click on it and it opens Word. This is really cool if I want another instance of Word, hold down Shift, click that again and notice I now have two Microsoft Words and if I Mouse Over this I can see these things. OK? And I can close these very easily, OK? Now there's another thing that's really cool here and that is My Folders OK? If I hit My Computer and Open it and then go into C and let's say that I want to grab say my MS6428 Folder, OK? If I right-click this, drag it down and say Pin over the Windows Explorer and let go, notice I just Pinned it right here, OK? So I can close this and now if I mov down here over it I don't see anything, OK? But if I right-click I get the Jump Menu and I can Open the 6428 Folder. And there's another cool thing that I can do if I'm using one of these finger pointer mouse things. I'll do it with my mouse here and that is left-click on it and just push the mouse up and you notice it pushes that Menu up and I can do that if I'm on a laptop with one of the Touchpads. So anyway just grab that Touchpad it up if I was on a laptop, OK? Again a lot of things you can do with a Taskbar. In a different video I'm going to show you how to get the Taskbar back to looking like it used to with the old Quick Launch Feature, OK? You're going to have to do a little bit of a Registry Hack but I'll show you how to do that in a different video. But for now that's some basics on the Taskbar and you're going to see a lot more as we go through here.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Windows 7 |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34064 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-86-6 |
| Release Date: | 2009-12-10 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 74 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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