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22 Part 1: The Windows 7 User Experience
✓ Display As a Menu: Select this option when you want Windows 7 to dis-
play the item folders and files as menu items on a continuation menu that
you can select and open from the Start menu.
✓ Don’t Display This Item: Select this option to remove the display of the
fixed item, such as Network Places.
After changing items in the Customize Start Menu dialog box, click its OK button
and then click the Apply button on the Start Menu tab in the Taskbar and Start
Menu Properties dialog box. This enables you to open the Start menu to check
that the modifications you want on the Start menu have been put into place
before you click OK in the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box to
close it.
Beneath the Customize button on the Start Menu tab of the Taskbar and Start
Menu Properties dialog box, you find a Power Button Action drop-down list. You
can use this drop-down list to change the function of the button that appears to
the immediate right of the Search Programs and Files button at the bottom of
the Start menu from Shut Down to any of the other options found on the associ-
ated pop-up menu (Switch User, Log Off, Lock, Restart, Sleep, or Hibernate).
After you select a new function for the Power Button, the name of its option
appears on the button, and the previously defined function then appears on the
associated pop-up menu.
If you don’t want Windows 7 to add the names of the programs you recently
worked in or the names of files you recently opened to the Start menu, you can
prevent this addition. Simply deselect the Store and Display Recently Opened
Programs in the Start Menu check box and the Store and Display Recently
Opened Items in the Start Menu and the Taskbar check box, which appear at
the bottom of the Start Menu tab in the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties
dialog box.
The Windows 7 Start menu adds jump lists to the application icons (such as
Microsoft Office Word or Excel) that appear on it. Jump lists show the docu-
ments you recently opened with the particular program, and you can use their
items to quickly launch the application while at the same time reopening the
document for more editing. If you have a document that you regularly edit, you
can even pin it to the program’s jump list by clicking the Pin to This List button
that appears when you position the mouse pointer over the document’s file-
name. That way, the document doesn’t disappear from the program’s jump list
as you continue editing other files with the program.
Pinning icons to the taskbar
The Windows 7 taskbar contains three standard Quick Launch buttons that you
can use to start commonly used programs:
✓ Internet Explorer: Opens Internet Explorer 8 for browsing Web pages. (See
“Internet Explorer 8” in Part 4.)
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