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Exploring Your Options

Personalizing your desktop

Personalizing your desktop

Your desktop is your virtual workspace. This section explains how to customize its features for the way you like to work. You can customize the following aspects of the desktop:

❖Taskbar—which resources to display for quick access

❖Folders style —how windows are displayed and how to browse folders and files

❖Toolbars—what information appears at the top of each window

Customizing the taskbar

As you work, the taskbar changes to reflect what you are doing. Its icons provide shortcuts to programs, documents, files, folders, system features, and components. Open applications also have Forward and Backward buttons to allow navigation through folders, documents, and Web sites.

For example, you can personalize the taskbar to include not only Quick Launch icons, but also your favorite URL addresses or local folders and programs.

DEFINITION: URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, which is the address that defines the route to a file on the Web or any other Internet facility. Generically, it is known as the World Wide Web site address.

Having a list of favorite URLs handy saves time. Using it bypasses the need for you to launch your browser first.

To access all taskbar options, point to an empty space in the taskbar and click the secondary button to customize your setting.