User Experience / The New Taskbar pt. 2
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Let's continue talking about the Task Bar. This video is entitled The New Task Bar Part Two and I want to show you some things that are going to make you fall in love with this Task Bar. Again I mention in Part One, you don't have the Quick Launch portion anymore, but I don't think you're going to miss it. So let's just play with a couple of things here. First of all, understand that if you right click on the Task Bar and if you click on Properties, you can go out here and make some changes on it, OK, covered that a little bit in the first video. But let's talk about some other things that you can do that are pretty wild. First of all, not too wild, but you can relocate this thing. Left click on it, drag it to the left side of the screen, you can put it over there, OK? You can move it to the top. You can move it to the right and you can bring it back to the bottom. Now those users who like these things moved around, it drives me nuts, but if you like it moved around, very easy to do, OK? Another really cool thing about the Task Bar is that if I want to reorder these things I just left click them and drag them where I want them to go. And so notice it's very easy to move things around here and get them in the order you like, OK? Next thing, I've already talked about pinning things. If I want Office to always be down here, I can just right click on it and say Pin to the Task Bar and it shows up right there, OK? Now, if I just click on it, left click, it opens Office. But let me show you something else that you can do, OK? I think I already have one of these files out there. This is a test VTC file and I want to overwrite the one that's out there, OK? OK, so I have a test VTC file out there now, OK? If I go out into the Library and go into Documents, there is my file, I'm going to right click it, drag it down to the Word area, let it go and I just pinned it right there. OK, now you know what's about to happen right? If I come down here and left click I open Word. That's a new document. It's just a new instance of Word. If I right click the icon, I can see the pinned files and it will open that particular document. So the difference is right and left clicking. Right clicking gets me that Jump Menu OK? Now there's something else that's really cool that you can do and I'm going to open Firefox, alright? And I'll take this away and I will open Microsoft, OK? So there's Microsoft's website and you can see that they're advertising Windows 7 right? Now, I'm going to drag the little icon and the URL and I'm just going to drag it down and I'm going to say, just let it go there, I left dragged and I Pinned it, OK? Now let's go grab something else, let's get- let's get Zip, Zoom, Fly. Let's go buy something, OK? Actually let's don't. I'm going to grab that, I will drag it down; I will let it go and now its there. OK, so you know where I'm headed here right? If I just left-click on this it opens Firefox, Google is my Homepage, OK? I'll close that but if I right-click and get my Jumps I can go straight to Zip, Zoom, Fly, pretty cool right? Now, if I want to right-click and go to Microsoft.com it'll open another instance of Firefox and you'll notice I have two down there now and I can look at these, OK? So very easy to manipulate things here with these Jump Menus, OK? Now there's a lot of things that you can do with these Jump Menus, so just play with these things, make sure that you just drag stuff down here and look and see what you can get OK? And you'll see all kind of cool things that can happen with this thing, so just tinker around, go out and look on Google, some of the other sites and just look at some of the cool things that you can make happen with this New Taskbar, some really, really neat stuff 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: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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