You can put the main area of the Start Menu to much better use if you configure it as a launching area for all the programs you use most often. You may want to clear the E-mail Link check box as well--especially if you have a shortcut to your E-mail application in the Startup folder so that it starts each time you log on or if you launch it once and then leave it running all the time.
Once you clear up that space on the Start Menu, access the All Programs submenu, right-click on a shortcut to a program you use most often, and select the Pin To Start Menu command. You can add between 15 and 30 shortcuts to your most often used programs to the Start Menu. The number of shortcuts you can add will depend on your screen resolution setting.
However, you'll notice that in the System Icons panel you can add and remove not only the Clock, but also the Volume, Network, and if you're using a laptop, the Power icon. If you configure the Taskbar with the Auto-Hide setting and rely on the Clock and Calendar gadgets on the desktop's Windows Sidebar for the time and date, you can then clear the Clock check box in order to enlarge the space available to the Taskbar and provide more room in the Notification Area.
The Toolbars tab, shown in Figure E, is completely new to the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box, and displays the same list of toolbars that you can see by right-clicking on the Taskbar itself and selecting the Toolbars submenu from the context menu.
And while you can easily enable and disable the various toolbars from the Toolbars tab, you can't add new toolbars. To do that, you still have to go to the Toolbars submenu on the Taskbar. Windows Vista's Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box has received a fair amount of reorganization and fine tuning yet is still familiar when it comes to customizing the Taskbar and Start Menu.
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Previously, he has worked as Documentation Specialist in the software industry, a Technical Support Specialist in educational industry, and a Technical Journalist in the computer publishing industry. The Taskbar tab. Editor's Picks. The best programming languages to learn in When it opens, type regedit into it and press the Enter key to open Registry Editor.
When the Registry Editor opens, head to the following path, find the entry named SearchboxTaskbarMode and right-click on it and select Modify. On the following screen, you should be able to change the value of the entry. It will be 1 by default but you need to enter 0 in the Value data field and click on OK. There are two others values that you can use and those are:.
There you go. Reboot your PC and you will find that the Registry Editor has removed the huge search bar from your Taskbar making more space available for other apps to be pinned there. One of the key reasons said by many users to remove the search bar is because they don't want it to show web results. If that's the case with you, you have an option to disable web results in your Windows 10 search. Click on the search bar in your Taskbar and select the Notebook icon followed by the Settings option.
On the following screen, turn off the option that says Cortana can give you suggestions, ideas, reminders, alerts and more. Also turn off another option that says Search online and include web results. You have successfully disabled the web results feature in your Windows search bar and you will now only see search results from your own PC and not from the web. Many users complain that Windows lacks the feature to reset forgotten user passwords and the users often get stuck when they can't recall the password for their user account.
If you ever run into such issues, Windows Password Key should help you out. It's a utility built specifically to help you reset the passwords for your user accounts on Windows PCs. If you want to change multiple aspects of the taskbar at one time, use Taskbar settings. Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar, and then select Taskbar settings. In the Taskbar settings , scroll to see the options for customizing, choosing icons, and much more. Typically, the taskbar icons are centered, but you can also align them to the side of the taskbar.
Scroll to Taskbar alignment and select Left. Open Taskbar settings. Whenever you want to change the order of app buttons on the taskbar, just drag a button from its current position to a different one. A badge on a taskbar button is an alert to let you know that some activity is happening, or needs to happen, with that app. Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar, select Taskbar settings , select Taskbar behaviors , then choose Select the far corner of the taskbar to show the desktop.
To restore the view of all your open windows, move the mouse over, or press, the far-right edge of the desktop again. You can hide the taskbar both in desktop mode and tablet mode. Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar, select Taskbar settings , select Taskbar behaviors , and select Automatically hide the taskbar. To see the taskbar after it's hidden, hover your mouse over, or touch, the bottom edge of your screen.
Select Colors and scroll to Accent color. Turn on Show accent color on Start and taskbar. This will change the color of your taskbar to the color of your overall theme.
Note: This option is only available if you select Dark or Custom as your Windows color under Choose your mode. If you choose Custom , you'll also need to choose Dark for Choose your default Windows mode. Open Colors settings. You can personalize it in many ways—change the color and size, pin your favorite apps to it, move it around on your screen, and rearrange or resize taskbar buttons.
You can also check your battery status, minimize all open programs momentarily so that you can take a look at your desktop, or lock the taskbar to keep your options.
You can do it from Start or the Jump List, which is a list of shortcuts to recently opened files, folders, and websites. If the app is already open, right-click or press the app's icon on the taskbar, then select Pin to taskbar. Or select Unpin from taskbar if you're unpinning the app. Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar, and then select Taskbar s ettings. In the Taskbar settings, scroll to see the options for customizing, sizing, choosing icons, battery information and much more.
Locking the taskbar is handy to make sure it remains how you set it up. Unlock the taskbar later when you want to make changes or change its location on the desktop. Select Taskbar settings and turn on Lock the taskbar. To turn it off, under Lock the taskbar set the toggle to Off. If you have multiple monitors that display the taskbar, you'll see Lock all taskbars. Typically, the taskbar is at the bottom of the desktop, but you can also move it to either side or the top of the desktop.
When the taskbar is unlocked, you can change its location. See the Lock and unlock the taskbar section to find out if yours is locked. When you've confirmed that your taskbar is unlocked, you can change its location. Press and hold or right-click any empty space on the taskbar and select Taskbar settings.
Like many other changes in the taskbar, you'll need to first unlock the taskbar. Then, move the pointer over the border of the taskbar until the pointer turns into a double arrow.
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