Windows 7 taskbar menus and toolbars

Windows 7 taskbar

The Windows 7 taskbar is that little strip of buttons and miniature icons that runs along the bottom of the screen. Like the Start menu, the taskbar is another useful control that you can use to accomplish all sorts of tasks, and it remains out of sight until you need it. The appearance of the taskbar varies according to the programs you're running and the custom controls you added to it. You can use the taskbar to:

Switch quickly between open applications.
Run the programs that you specify with a single mouse click.
Control background programs that normally run hidden, such as your antivirus software.
Control hardware, such as your printer and modem.
Connect and disconnect Universal Serial Bus and FireWire peripherals, such as digital cameras and external DVD recorders.
View the time and date.
Access the Start menu.

Windows 7 menus

Menus are the drop-down secret to life itself. Each menu contains either a group of similar commands or a group of commands that fall under the same category. To use a menu, you can either:

Go mousing. Click the menu name and then click the command from the list that appears.
Go digital. Hold down the Alt key, press the underlined letter in the menu name, use your cursor keys to choose a command, and then press Enter to use the command.

For example, to open a file in virtually any Windows application, click the File menu at the top of the window and then choose Open from the drop-down list that appears. Alternatively, while holding down the Alt key, press F and then press O.

Windows 7 toolbars

A toolbar is a collection of buttons that allows you to use the most common menu commands in a program with a single click. Typically, toolbars appear at the top of a program window, but many applications have either floating toolbars that exist as separate windows or toolbars that can be resized and relocated anywhere in the application window. Some applications let you go even further, allowing you to customize your toolbars with buttons for the menu commands you use the most.

To illustrate how easy it is to use a toolbar, consider opening a file. If the application you're using has a File Open button on the toolbar, click it - end of story. To display the name of a toolbar, leave your mouse pointer motionless on top of the toolbar button for a moment or two. Such motionless conduct is called hovering among technotypes, and the snippets of text that appear are called tooltips.

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