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Exploring Your Computer's Features
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
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Web content interface—what information from the
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Internet to display
Desktop style—how windows are displayed and how to
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browse folders and files
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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.
To customize your taskbar settings, point to an empty space
in the taskbar and click the secondary button. Then click
Properties.
Bringing the world to your desktop
With the Windows
system you can set up your desktop with complete World
Wide Web integration at a single click.
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.
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