Using The Mouse In Windows 7
Using The Mouse In Windows 7: The taskbar starts at the bottom of the screen, but you can move it anywhere. When you start a program, the program icon will appear there. You can move icons from other places and pin them onto the taskbar and they will remain there. You can change the order of the icons on the taskbar by moving them around with the mouse. The first five icons can be opened more than once using *keyboard shortcuts. In other words you could run more than one instance of one of these programs. A new feature called Aero will allow you to see the desktop when you hover over the gadget on the right of the toolbar when it is on the bottom of the screen. This looks like a small bar. If you click on it with the mouse, the desktop will pop forward and stay that way until you click the gadget again. When a program is running ,it is indicated on the task bar by a rectangular box around its icon. If you hover over this with the mouse, you will be able to see how many instances of it are running. If you click on one of the instances it will be brought to the front of the screen. If you use the left mouse button on that icon, a jump list comes up and you can click on any item on it to go to that event. One really nice feature is the new system tray. There is a tiny arrow near the right on the task bar. Click on it and the system tray is revealed. You can click on any icon in there. As usual you can right mouse click on the desktop to bring up a context menu that will allow you to do a lot of things including Personalizing. Personalize brings up a screen with a lot of choices for creating a nice desktop along with other features that you will want to look at which can be accessed from other areas also. I think that it is important here to mention the fact that when you open a folder, you can navigate back by moving you mouse cursor up to the navigation bar and clicking on the directory that you want to go to. An example might be a navigation bar with this in it, Control Panel/Appearance and Personalization /Personalization. You can go to the address bar and click on the part of the address that has a parent directory and you will be taken to there. If the folder is at the last directory, you may have to go up to the navigation bar and backspace on the last entry or use the back arrow. If you want to go back to the Control Panel, go up and click on that part of the entry. If you come from Windows XP as I do, you will notice that the folders almost look like a web browser when they are open. There is now an action center located on the task bar. It is on the right side and shows a little flag. To read any messages from your operating system click on it. There is also a network icon and volume icon near it that can also be clicked on. The very first icon on the task bar is the ball with the windows symbol in it (start menu). Clicking on it brings up a menu with two sides. The left side shows the programs that you use the most, the program menu and the search menu, the right side has all the important stuff that you can choose from, such as the control panel. your drives and devices and much, much more. Clicking on these icons will bring you to other important menus. To exit Windows you have to go to the bottom of the menu on the right side and select the shutdown button. There are different choices you can indicate if you click on the arrow next to the shutdown menu item. You can use a new Windows 7 feature called Libraries. You will notice that when you open the start menu, that is the first thing on the taskbar, you will see an entry with your ID. This is your library and you can put anything in there you want to. Then you can click on it to run it. You can add folders if you want to. Dragging a window to any border of a screen will resize it on single displays. In dual displays it will be outside borders only. In other words if you are set to show a two monitor display as one screen, the two inside sides of the monitors will have no effect on the window. If you click on a window that is not fully open and shake the mouse, all other windows will be minimized. While left clicking on an icon activates it, right clicking brings up the context menu that will contain choices for actions that you could take, including permissions for running programs. These are listed under the security tab when you click on properties. Remember that there are program icons and shortcut icons. Change the permissions, if necessary, in the program icons and then check the shortcut icons to see if anything has to be changed there.
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