Exploring Your Options

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Personalizing your desktop

The elements you can add to the top of the window are:

Toolbar element

Description

Address Bar

Opens Web pages, programs, folders, or

 

documents. By default, the address bar

 

shows your current location, and whether

 

it is a folder or a Web page. You can

 

browse to another location by typing an

 

address — a URL, a path, or even a pro-

 

gram name.

 

If you start typing a previously typed

 

address, the AutoComplete feature fin-

 

ishes the address for you.

Standard buttons Displays buttons for commonly used commands, such as copying, pasting, deleting items, changing views, and browsing backward and forward.

Displaying a toolbar in a window

1Click Start, then click My Computer. The My Computer window appears.

2On the View menu, point to Toolbars, then click the name of the toolbar you want to display.

The toolbar appears below the menu bar of the current window.

Displaying information about each folder

In addition to displaying the contents of each window, you might find it helpful to have the operating system display the name of the folder and brief information about how to use the folder. This means displaying an individual window as a Web page.

1Click Start, then click My Computer. The My Computer window appears.

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Toshiba A45 Series manual 169, Displaying a toolbar in a window, Displaying information about each folder