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GEM IN THE ROUGH SECRET KEYSTROKES OF THE
TASKBAR ICONS
There’s secret keyboard shortcuts lurking in them thar taskbar icons. It
turns out that the first 10 icons, left to right, have built-in keystrokes
that “click” them: the key plus the numbers 1, 2, 3, and so on (up to
0, which means 10).
If you use this keystroke to “click” the icon of a program that’s not
running, it opens up as though you’d clicked it. If you “click” a
program that has only one window open, that window pops to the front.
If you “click” a program with more than one window open, the icon
sprouts thumbnail previews of all of them, and the first window pops to
the front.
Remember that you can drag icons around on the taskbar, in effect
reassigning those 1-through-0 keystrokes.
To pin a program to the taskbar in this way, use one of these tricks:
Drag a program’s icon directly to any spot on the taskbar, as
shown in Figure 2-21. You can drag them from any File Explorer
window or from the desktop.
