Microsoft QLF-00195 manual Jump Lists

Windows 7 for You: Simplifies Everyday Tasks

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Jump Lists

Do you keep a lot of documents on the Windows desktop or in your Documents folder? If so, you know how hard it can be to find that one file you need. Jump Lists can help. These dynamic lists automati- cally show you files based on how often and how recently you’ve done things, so you’ll spend less time looking for your favorite song or that document you worked on yesterday. And when you’ve pinned an item to a program for easy access, it’ll show up in your Jump List too.

There’s a Jump List for each program on your Start menu and taskbar, making it simple to find the documents you’ve used recently or need quick access to in the future. You can also easily get to your Jump Lists by right clicking on a taskbar icon or by clicking on a Start Menu arrow.

Some programs—such as Windows Media Player—populate Jump Lists with common tasks. For example, you’ll see the option to Play All Music on the Jump List for Windows Media Player. On the Jump List for Internet Explorer, you’ll see frequently viewed and pinned Web sites. With some programs, you’ll even have direct access to tasks that in the past were available only from within the program, such as composing a new e-mail message.

Jump Lists provide quick access to common tasks.

Sometimes you might want to open a certain file type with a program that isn’t its default program, like using Wordpad instead of Microsoft Office Word. In this case, you can pin the file to the program you want to use by dragging the item onto the program’s taskbar icon. Then, when you open the file from the Jump List, you’ll automatically launch the newly associated program. For example, you can pin an

.HTML file to Notepad’s Jump List, and that file will always open when clicked from the menu—even though Internet Explorer typically handles .HTML files by default.

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