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Not sure what a taskbar icon does? Rest your mouse
pointer over any of the taskbar’s icons to see either
the program’s name or a thumbnail image of the pro-
gram’s contents, as shown in Figure 2-5. In that figure,
for example, you can see that Internet Explorer con-
tains two web pages.
From the taskbar, you can perform powerful magic, as
described in the following list:
✓ To play with a program listed on the task-
bar, click its icon. Whenever you load a pro-
gram on the desktop, its icon automatically
appears on the taskbar. If one of your open
windows ever gets lost on your desktop,
click its icon on the taskbar to bring it to the
forefront. Clicking the taskbar icon yet again
minimizes that same window.
✓ To close a window listed on the taskbar, right-
click its icon and choose Close from the
pop-up menu. The program quits, just as if
you’d chosen its Exit command from within its
own window.
✓ Traditionally, the taskbar lives along your
desktop’s bottom edge, but you can move it to
any edge you want, a handy space saver on
extra-wide monitors. (Hint: Try dragging it to
your screen’s side. If it doesn’t move, right-click
the taskbar and click Lock the Taskbar to
remove the check mark by that option.)
✓ If the taskbar keeps hiding below the screen’s
bottom edge, point the mouse at the screen’s
bottom edge until the taskbar surfaces. Then
right-click the taskbar, choose Properties, and
remove the check mark from Auto-Hide the
Taskbar.
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