Windows7 task bar Related tips

The taskbar can be said to be one of our most common features. When we first face the Windows 7 task bar, in the excitement may feel a little confused, and XP, change is really big, through their own operations can find some common skills, but some features need to study carefully.

1, show the Quick Launch bar

Windows 7 does not display the Quick Launch bar by default, and you can retrieve the Quick Launch bar by using the following method. Right-click on the taskbar, select the toolbar, create a new toolbar, and in the pop-up dialog box, enter:%userprofile%appdataroamingmicrosoftinternet Explorerquick Launch, this will pop up the path does not exist prompts, Don't worry about it, click OK, and then there will be a folder named Quick Launch, select and click the Select folder to complete the operation.

2, Gercourt display My Computer

By default, the taskbar will have a library button that opens to the System's library folder, and if you don't use library features, you can set this button to open directly into the computer.

Right click on the Library button, and then right-click Windows Explorer, select Properties, the target (T) column of the value is:%windir%explorer.exe, I just need to add a space and a comma after this number, click OK to complete the modification.

3, adjust the taskbar position, icon size

The Windows 7 taskbar is much larger, and the arrangement has changed, and if not, it can be adjusted by property settings.

Right-click in the taskbar blank to select Properties, in the taskbar label can be set, we can condition the size of the taskbar icon, location, automatic hiding, you can also set the taskbar button arrangement mode, if you are not accustomed to jumplist list arrangement, you can set the taskbar button to never merge.

4. Use Right key function

We can drag a variety of programs to the taskbar to quickly start, you are not only using the left mouse button to open this simple function? If you right-click on the icon on the taskbar, you may have new features.

For example, we right click on the Library button, you can find that here will automatically list the commonly used folders to facilitate rapid access; If it is proud to swim such a browser, click the right button icon will also show the most frequently browsed pages, if it is WMP player such software, will also show the most frequently played video, music and so on.

5, with Quickjumplist to create super fast start

Quickjumplist is a homemade windows 7 taskbar enhancement software. Although we can lock a variety of software to the taskbar, but the length of the taskbar is limited, if you often use more software and folders, a long list of icons on the taskbar, it is not good to see, with quickjumplist can solve this problem.

The software has only one file and can be used directly by clicking it. Click on the file to add any software executable program to the list of the software, the same click on the folder can add any one of the folders come in, add complete, and then click the Create button, you can just add the content produced into a jumplist list, Then click on the right button we can see just added content, click can be used, if it is convenient, you can lock the software to the taskbar long-term use.

6, the taskbar also need to use glass effect

The Aero glass effects are unique in Vista and Windows 7, making the interface look more beautiful. Windows 7 opened the glass effect, you will find that the taskbar jumplist list is still white background black word, and the overall effect is a bit inconsistent, so we let this jumplist list also use glass effects.

First install 7stacks This software, although it is in English, but the operation is very simple, after installation is completed, click on the desktop Create a new 7stack, open the settings interface. The top folder to use for stack column means to set the content displayed in the JumpList list, you can select a file

folder, or the shortcuts to the usual software in one of the folders, and then point to the folder, where the choice is D disk. Other settings remain unchanged, click on the bottom of the Dreate shortcut on Desktop, it will be on the desktop to generate a shortcut called drive D, close the software, drag the shortcut to the taskbar lock, and then left-click, you can see gorgeous effect.

7, Gmail message preview

Although there is a sidebar this feature in Windows 7, you can add a variety of gadgets to your desktop, but one problem is that if you want to view the sidebar information while browsing the Web or making a document, you must switch to the desktop to view it unless you set the sidebar tool to display the front end. The front end display can also affect the operation, and it is more convenient to set some important tools to the taskbar display.

Gmail is the most popular mailbox, if you use Gmail in Windows 7, then you must use the Gmail Notifier plus this plug-in, you can directly preview the taskbar in the task bar and write new mail operations.

Click this software, you can appear in the taskbar a red mail icon, the first use will require you to enter the correct Gmail account information, if the landing is successful, the Aero effect when the mouse on this icon to view the latest mail, click the right button can also carry out other operations.

8, the taskbar display hardware information

Many friends like to view the implementation of computer hardware information, in order to deal with the existing problems in a timely manner, usually with the help of the injection of such hardware testing software to see, now we through a few small plug-ins, you can let the hardware information in the taskbar display.

I believe you need to know the CPU, the real-time use of memory, we can use Taskbarcpumeter and taskbarmemorymeter These two plug-ins, double-click can be displayed in the taskbar, but the two plug-ins are different, will not show detailed information, Instead of the color, we can click on the taskbar icon to set the color to indicate CPU and memory usage, to see more convenient.