All Entries Tagged With: "windows 7 taskbar"
How To: Change the Number Of Jump List Items
Here is a quick tip for those Windows 7 users who would like to change the number of recent items that are displayed in the jump lists in the Windows 7 taskbar. Jump lists are small context menus for taskbar items that can display all kinds of information and links including the recently opened items. [...]
Tweak The Windows 7 Taskbar With Taskbar Overlord
The Taskbar Overlord application for the Windows 7 operating system was born out of frustration with how some aspects of the Windows 7 taskbar were working. The software developer decided to create the program to fix two issues that he had with the Windows 7 taskbar.
The first issue was that he did not like that [...]
Change Windows 7 Taskbar Hover Time
One new feature of Windows 7 are thumbnail previews when hovering the mouse over a taskbar item. The default time before the thumbnail is displayed is 400 milliseconds which might be not fast enough for some users while it might be to fast for others. Here is how you change the Windows 7 taskbar hover [...]
Enable Windows 7 Quick Launch Toolbar
Screenshots of the new Windows 7 build 7025 have been making their rounds on the Internet lately which show a quick launch bar in the Windows 7 taskbar. The quick launch bar looks similar to that of Windows Vista. Here is how you can enable the quick launch toolbar in Windows 7 build 7000 (the [...]
Display Icons And Text In The Windows 7 Taskbar
The Windows 7 taskbar has seen a major overhaul. It looks and behaves different than the taskbars on previous versions of the Windows operating system. One of those changes is the icon only display in the Windows 7 taskbar.
All open programs will be shown with their icons only. Some users might prefer the old way [...]
The Windows 7 Taskbar
The Engineering Windows 7 blog is finally starting to integrate the operating system into their articles. Most of the previous articles that have been posted at the website were about theoretical aspects and things Microsoft learned from past operating systems.
The Windows 7 Taskbar is a very detailed article about the new and improved Taskbar in [...]
Enable New Windows 7 Taskbar In Windows 7 M3 Build 6801
Rafael Rivera did analyze the Windows 7 version that was handed out to the attendees of the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles and discovered that it contained features that were locked in the build by Microsoft. You might remember that Microsoft did a presentation of the desktop elements of Windows 7 at the conference [...]
A Close Look At The New Windows 7 Taskbar
Microsoft introduced some fundamental design changes in the Windows 7 presentation today. This article will take a closer look at what Microsoft has shown. One of the most talked new features is the new Windows 7 Taskbar. We already talked about the increase in size but Microsoft has revealed some interesting information about the taskbar [...]
Windows 7 M3 First Screenshots Appear
No one is allowed to talk about the changes of the Windows 7 M3 client that will be presented tomorrow by Microsoft. The German magazine WinFuture got hold of two rather blurred images of the new interface which give a first impression of the changes in that version. The screenshots seem to confirm that the [...]
Windows 7 Presentation Recap
I guess everyone has already seen the touchscreen presentation from the All Things Digital conference a few days ago. While most eyes were glued to that main presentation it turned out that Microsoft was revealing more information than they wanted to reveal at that point. Long Zheng has already written a great article about the [...]