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Chapter 1: Getting Comfortable with the Windows 7 Desktop
Media Player); the fourth icon is for Solitaire, which you
started in the preceding task. The mouse hovers over
Solitaire to display the thumbnail or the program name.
Taskbar
Thumbnail Notification area
Figure 1-7
Use the taskbar as another way to run programs, in
addition to the Start menu. You can use the taskbar to
switch between programs by clicking the icon for the
program you want to use.
2. Hover the mouse pointer over icons in the taskbar. For
programs that are running, you may see a preview or
thumbnail (small picture) of that program (refer to
Figure 1-7).
Whether your computer has this capability depends,
in part, on your edition of Windows 7. The Starter
edition, for example, does not show thumbnails in
the taskbar. This function also depends on your
computer’s graphics hardware, so you may not see
taskbar thumbnails if you don’t have the necessary
hardware.
3. The right end of the taskbar is an area called the
Notification area or icon tray (refer to Figure 1-7), which
displays the current date and time, as well as icons for
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