Toshiba 3490CT - Portege - PIII 700 MHz, User Manual

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Enhancing Productivity
Personalizing your desktop
Customizing the taskbar
As you work, the taskbar changes to reflect what you are doing. Its
icons provide shortcuts to programs, documents, files, folders,
system features, and components. Open applications also have
Forward and Backward buttons to allow navigation through
folders, documents, and Web sites.
For example, you can personalize the taskbar to include not only
Quick Launch icons, but also your favorite URL addresses or local
folders and programs.
DEFINITION: URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator,
which is the address that defines the route to a file on the
Web or any other Internet facility. Generically, it is known as
the World Wide Web site address.
Having a list of favorite URLs handy saves time because using it
bypasses the need for you to launch your browser first.
To customize your taskbar settings, point to an empty space in the
taskbar and click the secondary button.
Bringing the world to your desktop (Windows 98 Second
Edition)
You can set up your desktop with complete World Wide Web
integration at a single click. As Microsoft Help says, “The Active
Desktop interface lets you put ‘active content’ from Web pages or
a channel on your desktop. You can make your desktop truly your
own space by adding the active items you refer to on a regular
basis: news, weather, sports, stock prices or whatever you want to
have at hand.”