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✓ Windows Explorer: Opens the Libraries window in the Windows Explorer
so that you can access documents stored on your computer. (See “File,
Folder, and Library Management” in Part 2.)
✓ Windows Media Player: Opens Windows Media Player so that you can
view photos or play music or video stored on your computer. (See
“Windows Media Player” in Part 6.)
In addition to these three standard Quick Launch buttons, you can add your own
custom buttons by dragging a desktop shortcut to the desired position on the
taskbar and then releasing the mouse button when the Pin to Taskbar ScreenTip
appears above the shortcut icon. The mouse pointer indicates where the new
button will be inserted with a dark I-beam cursor at the tip of the pointer. A
button for the shortcut then appears at the position of the I-beam on the taskbar.
You can delete any of these custom Quick Launch buttons from the taskbar by
right-clicking the button and then choosing Unpin from Taskbar from the short-
cut menu that appears.
As you continue to add new Quick Launch buttons to the taskbar, some of the
existing buttons at the end of the bar become hidden from view when the Lock
the Taskbar option is selected (as it is by default). Windows 7 then adds a con-
tinuation button with triangles pointing up and down to the taskbar. Click the
triangle pointing downward on this continuation button to display hidden but-
tons at the end of the taskbar, and click the triangle pointing upward to redis-
play the buttons at the beginning of the taskbar.
Adding other toolbars to the taskbar
When you first start using Windows 7, none of its built-in toolbars are added to
the taskbar. You can, however, add any of the following toolbars:
✓ Address toolbar: Here you can directly enter pathnames for folders and
files you want to open or URL addresses for Web pages you want to visit.
✓ Links toolbar: Enables you to add links to Web pages you visit regularly by
dragging the Web page icon — located to the immediate left of the page’s
URL address — to a place on the toolbar.
✓ Tablet PC Input Panel toolbar: This toolbar (a button, actually) opens the
Input Panel on the Windows 7 desktop where you can write rather than
type your entries (assuming that you’re running Windows 7 on a Tablet PC
laptop computer).
✓ Desktop toolbar: Gives you access to all the desktop items on your
computer.
To add any (or all) of these toolbars to your taskbar, right-click the bar at a
place where there isn’t already a toolbar and then choose Toolbars from the
pop-up menu that appears, followed by the name of the toolbar to add.
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