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20 Part 1: The Windows 7 User Experience
✓ Taskbar Location on Screen: Enables you to select the position of the
taskbar — Bottom (the default), Left, Right, or Top.
✓ Taskbar Buttons: Enables you to determine how the buttons for minimized
documents open in the various Windows components and applications are
displayed and whether or not they’re combined so that one type of Quick
Launch button appears (with individual thumbnails above) or each
appears in individual buttons on the taskbar. Your options here are Always
Combine, Hide Labels (the default), Combine When Taskbar Is Full, or
Never Combine.
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Near the bottom of the Taskbar tab, you can find the Use Aero Peek to Preview
the Desktop check box. When this check box is selected (as it is by default),
keep in mind that you can temporarily hide all but the outlines of the windows
that are currently open on the Windows desktop simply by positioning the
mouse pointer over the Show Desktop button located at the far-right end of the
taskbar. The contents of the open windows are then instantly redisplayed on the
desktop the moment you move the mouse pointer off of the Show Desktop
button.
See “Customizing the Notification area,” later in this part, for information about
using the Customize button under Notification Area on the Taskbar tab of the
Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box to modify the appearance of this
part of the Windows taskbar.
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