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Once an icon is on the taskbar, you can open it with a single click. By all

means, stick your favorites there; over the years, you’ll save yourself
thousands of unnecessary Start-menu trips.

Tip
If you Shift-click a taskbar icon, you open another window for that program—for example, a new
browser window, a new Microsoft Word document, and so on. (Clicking with your mouse’s scroll
wheel, or the middle mouse button, does the same thing.) Add the Ctrl key to open the program as
an administrator.
And if you Shift-right-click a taskbar icon, you see the same menu of window-management
commands (Cascade, Restore, and so on) that you get when you right-click a blank spot on the
taskbar.
All these tricks require a mouse or a trackpad.

If you change your mind about a program icon you’ve parked on the
taskbar, it’s easy to move an icon to a new place—just drag it.

You can also remove one altogether. Right-click (or hold your finger down

on) the program’s icon—in the taskbar or anywhere on your PC—and, from
the shortcut menu, choose “Unpin from taskbar.”

Note

The taskbar is really intended to display the icons of programs. If you try to drag a file or a folder
there, you’ll succeed only in adding it to a program’s jump list, as described next. If you want
quick, one-click taskbar access to files, folders, and disks, though, you can have it. See “Taskbar
Toolbars” on the Missing CD at missingmanuals.com.

Jump Lists

Jump lists are handy submenus that list frequently or recently opened files

in each of your programs. For example, the jump list for the Edge browser
shows the websites you visit most often; the jump list for Microsoft Word
shows the documents you’ve edited lately. See Figure 2-22.