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4 Part 1: The Windows 7 User Experience
In the case of a Web page, choose File➪Send➪Shortcut to Desktop in Internet
Explorer when the Classic pull-down menus are displayed.
Note that to create a desktop shortcut to a drive on your computer system, you
must right-click the drive and choose the Create Shortcut item from its shortcut
menu (there is no Send To item). Windows 7 then displays an alert dialog box
indicating that it can’t create a shortcut in the same window and asking whether
you want the shortcut placed on the desktop instead. Click the Yes button.
You can also use a wizard to create a desktop shortcut by following these few
steps:
1. Right-click anywhere on the desktop (but not on an existing desktop item)
and then choose New➪Shortcut from the shortcut menu that appears.
2. Enter the location of the item to which you want to create the shortcut
either by entering its path and filename or URL (Web) address or by click-
ing the Browse button and locating the item in the Browse for Files or
Folders dialog box before you click OK.
3. Click the Next button and then, if you want, edit the name for the shortcut
in the Type a Name for This Shortcut text box. Wrap up by clicking Finish.
After you create a desktop shortcut, you can open the program, drive, folder,
document, or Web page associated with it by double-clicking the shortcut icon
or by right-clicking it and then choosing Open from its shortcut menu.
To change the size of all desktop icons, to disable the automatic arrangement of
the icons and alignment to an invisible grid, or even to temporarily remove the
display of all icons, right-click any open space on the desktop, choose View from
the shortcut menu that appears, and then choose the appropriate option. To
change the order in which your desktop shortcuts appear in columns across the
desktop, use the options (Name, Size, Item Type, and Date Modified) on the Sort
By shortcut menu, which you can access by right-clicking any open space on the
desktop.
Flip and Flip 3-D
When you have many windows open in Windows 7, the Flip and Flip 3-D (also
known as the Window Switcher) features provide you with two quick methods
for activating the window you want to work by displaying it on the top of the
others.
To use the Flip feature (see Figure 1-2), hold down Alt+Tab. Windows 7 displays
a panel in the middle of the desktop showing thumbnails of each open window
in the order in which they were opened with the name of the window that’s cur-
rently selected. To activate a new window in the panel, press Tab as you hold
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