Unique taskbar in Windows 7

At first glance, Windows 7 is identical to the previous Windows Vista, especially the glossy Aero interface. But in fact, this latest operating system brings a lot of valuable improvements, among them the interesting Taskbar.

 

The first is the Quick Launch (the component containing the shortcut to the popular applications located at the bottom left of the screen, right next to the Start button) that has "engraved" with the Taskbar. And instead, there is now only one horizontal bar containing icons, very much like the OS X dock. You can also right-click these icons and 'push' them into the taskbar (just like on the dock). ) when you are not using.

If the applications have been grouped together on the Taskbar, users can press CTRL and click to flip through the windows, or just press SHIFT and click to 'duplicate' the selected application. Assuming you 'cloned' two Firefox windows and run them in parallel, when either of them crashes, it will not affect the remaining windows. Google Chrome also has similar features to tabs.

The taskbar in Win 7 includes Jumplist , which acts as a shortcut for the applications when right-clicking the icon on the Taskbar. You can compare Jumplist with the ability to save new files opened in the existing Windows Start > My Recent Document section, but it is more handy: a list of newly opened web pages or files will display when right clicked. on each application. With Internet Explorer, the History section is displayed and Word is the most recent text file.

Jumplist can also be customized as you like. For example, you often open a folder with Windows Explorer, just one right click and drag-drop the folder into the Win Explorer icon, it will be 'attached' to it and the next visit will be single. much simpler.

Microsoft also helps users save time by allowing the use of Windows shortcut keys combined with keys 1 to 5 to launch corresponding to the first 5 applications on the Taskbar. It is easy to switch between applications that are launched using Windows and # combinations.

Even the features available in Vista such as hovering over the application to see the thumbnail of the application are improved. Assuming that 3 Firefox windows are 'lumped' under the same icon, the Aero Peak utility will display thumbnails for all three. Users can quickly browse or flip through these thumbnails. With specially supported applications like IE, Aero Peek even shows up one tab at a time.

Finally, the ability to switch the Taskbar to the sides of the screen: put the Taskbar on the left and right of the screen as you like, while ensuring the aesthetics. With Windows 7, Microsoft has overcome the 'weird' distortions in terms of graphics, so the location of the Taskbar is broken into really attractive. The icons on the Taskbar are streamlined and harmoniously combined whether the Taskbar is horizontal or upright.

It can be said that the new Taskbar of Windows 7 is the interface improvement really worth after many years of "stalling" by Microsoft. Despite the detractors of "counterfeit goods", some people consider this taskbar even more convenient than the Dock, which is the icon of the OSX operating system for Macs - the comment is not necessarily lacking. .