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24 Part 1: The Windows 7 User Experience
Creating new toolbars
You can add your own custom toolbars to the Windows 7 taskbar from the fold-
ers that you keep on your computer. When you create a custom toolbar from an
existing folder, Windows creates buttons for each of the subfolders that the
folder may contain.
To create a custom toolbar from a folder, follow these steps:
1. Right-click the taskbar (without clicking any of the buttons or icons it con-
tains) and then choose Toolbars➪New Toolbar from the shortcut menu
that appears.
Windows opens the New Toolbar – Choose a Folder dialog box, where you
select the folder to be used in creating the new toolbar.
2. Use the Navigation pane in the Choose a Folder dialog box to select the
folder whose contents are to be used in creating the new toolbar by click-
ing the folder icon in the navigation list box.
3. Click the OK button to close the New Toolbar dialog box.
As soon as you close the New Toolbar dialog box, Windows adds the new
toolbar, indicated by the folder’s name followed by a continuation button
(>>). When you click this continuation button, Windows 7 displays a pop-up
menu showing all the subfolders and documents contained in that folder.
All custom toolbars that you create are automatically deleted the moment you
remove their display from the Windows 7 taskbar (by right-clicking the taskbar
and then choosing Toolbars followed by the name of the custom toolbar).
The notification area
The notification area displays the current time as well as icons that indicate the
active status of various components — the status of your network connection,
Active Sync connection to your hand-held device, hot-pluggable cards such as
PC cards or ExpressCards inserted into a laptop computer, or the printer queue,
to name a few examples. In addition, the notification area displays icons repre-
senting various programs or processes that run in the background, such as the
Windows Sidebar (for hiding and redisplaying the Sidebar), the Language Bar
(for using Voice Recognition and Handwriting Recognition in Microsoft Office
programs), the Windows Clipboard when it contains multiple items, and
Windows Messenger.
This is also the place from which the Windows Update feature displays its
Update Reminder message telling you that new updates for the system are avail-
able. (See “Windows Update” in Part 5.)
To identify an icon that appears in the status area, position the mouse pointer
over it until the ScreenTip appears. To change the status of an icon, right-click it
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