To customize the Taskbar, right click on any blank space. Choose "Properties" from the popup menu to Autohide the Taskbar among other features. You can even remove the clock. Check this out. The popup menu also contains "Toolbars" that you can add to the Taskbar. If you keep a lot of documents and files on your desktop, click on the Desktop Toolbar item to add it.
Now, when you have multiple pages opened, you don't have to close them all to access something on your desktop. You can resize each toolbar by clicking and dragging on the vertical gray bar that separates them. You can even drag a toolbar onto a second row and make the toolbar taller. Finally, you can move the Taskbar to any edge of your screen.
Try it out by clicking and dragging it to a position along the top, right or left edge of the screen. The most important thing you can do with the System Tray is to determine whether all of the applications represented by the icons really need to be starting up and running all the time.
Each icon represents a little program that is taking memory to remain active. If your computer is starting up or running slowly, see if you can shut some of these down. For Windows 7, programs that normally have desktop presence may temporarily display a taskbar button to show status. Do so only if your program is normally displayed on the desktop and users frequently interact with it.
A program that normally runs without desktop presence should use its notification area icon instead, even though it might not always be visible. In this example, Windows Sync Center incorrectly uses a temporary taskbar button to display status. It should use its notification area icon instead. Design your program icon to look great on the taskbar. Ensure it is meaningful, and reflects its function and your brand. Make it distinct, make it special, and ensure it renders well in all icon sizes.
Spend the time necessary to get it right. Follow the Aero-style icon guidelines. If your program uses overlay icons, design your program's base icon to handle overlays well. Overlay icons are displayed in the lower right corner, so design the icon so that area can be obscured. In this example, the program's taskbar button icon doesn't have important information in the lower right area. Don't use overlays in your program's base icon, whether your program uses overlay icons or not. Using an overlay in the base icon will be confusing because users will have to figure out that it's not communicating status.
For general icon guidelines and examples, see Icons. Use overlay icons to indicate useful and relevant status only. Consider the display of an overlay icon to be a potential interruption of the user's work, so the status change must be important enough to merit a potential interruption.
Use overlay icons for temporary status. The overlay icons lose their value if displayed constantly, so normal program status should not show an icon. Remove the overlay icon when the icon:. Exception: Your program can constantly display an overlay icon if users always need to know its status.
In this example, Windows Live Messenger always displays an overlay icon so that users can always check their reported presence. Don't display an icon to indicate that a problem has been solved. Instead, simply remove any previous icon indicating a problem. Assume that users normally expect your program to run without problems. Display either overlay icons or notification area icons, but never both. Your program may support both mechanisms for backward compatibility, but if your program displays status using overlay icons, it shouldn't also use notification area icons for status.
Don't flash the taskbar button to draw attention to a status change. Doing so would be too distracting. Let users discover overlay icons on their own. Prefer standard overlay icons to indicate status or status changes. Use these standard overlay icons:.
For custom overlay icons, choose an easily recognizable design. Use high-quality 16x16 pixel, full color icons. Prefer icons with distinctive outlines over square or rectangular shaped icons. Apply the other Aero-style icon guidelines as well. Keep the design of custom overlay icons simple. Don't try to communicate complex, unfamiliar, or abstract ideas. If you can't think of a suitable custom icon, use a standard icon error or warning icon instead when appropriate. These icons can be used effectively to communicate many types of status.
Don't change status too frequently. Overlay icons shouldn't appear noisy, unstable, or demand attention. The eye is sensitive to changes in the peripheral field of vision, so status changes need to be subtle. Don't change the icon rapidly. If underlying status is changing rapidly, have the icon reflect high-level status. Don't flash the icon. Doing so is too distracting. If an event requires immediate attention, use a dialog box instead. If the event otherwise needs attention, use a notification.
Design Jump Lists to satisfy your users' goals for their everyday tasks. Your program's purpose. Think about what users are most likely to do next.
For document creation programs, users are likely to return to recently used documents. For programs that show existing content, users may want access to resources they use frequently. For other programs, users might be likely to do tasks they haven't done before, such as read new messages, watch new videos, or check their next meeting.
What users care about most. Think about why users would use the Jump List instead of other means. For example, users are more likely to care about destinations they explicitly identified as important such as Web addresses users placed on their links bar or in Favorites, or typed in. They are less likely to care about those obtained indirectly or with little effort such as Web addresses visited through redirection or by clicking links.
In the incorrect example, the Jump List contains many destinations that users aren't likely to care about. Don't make destinations too granular.
Making destinations too narrow and specific can result in redundancy, with several ways to go to the same place. For example, instead of listing individual Web pages, list top-level home pages instead; instead of listing songs, list albums.
Don't fill all the available Jump List slots if you don't need to. Focus Jump List content on the most useful items if your program has only three useful items, provide only three. The more items in a Jump List, the more effort required to find any specific item. In this example, the Sticky Notes accessory provides a single Jump List command, because that's all that is needed.
Provide tooltips only when needed to help users understand Jump List items. Avoid redundant tooltips because they are an unnecessary distraction. For more tooltip guidelines, see Tooltips and Infotips. Provide at least one and at most three groups. The taskbar is a movable, concealable icon bar that is set on the very edge of the graphical user interface GUI desktop and serves as a launching pad for applications as well as a holder for icons indicating running programs.
The taskbar was first introduced by Microsoft in Windows 95 and has since been adopted by other operating systems. It may be locked in place, set to auto-hide or kept on top of other windows. Using the taskbar, a running program can easily be made current i. Icons in the taskbar that represent running applications also serve as toggle buttons that allow switching windows for running applications between the minimized state and the maximized or resized state.
In the Windows taskbar, similar running programs are grouped together when there are too many for the taskbar to accommodate. By: Justin Stoltzfus Contributor, Reviewer. By: Satish Balakrishnan. Dictionary Dictionary Term of the Day.
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