July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
960 pages
24h 50m
English
Content preview from Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Chapter 3
Personalizing the Desktop and Taskbar
IN THIS CHAPTER
Putting shortcuts on the desktop — the advanced course
Changing desktop colors and pictures
Customizing the taskbar in unexpected, and useful, ways
It’s your desktop. Do with it what you will.
In Book 3, Chapter 2, I talk about gussying up your Start menu — the left side, with icons, the middle, with links, and the right side, with tiles. This chapter looks at the rest of your desktop, what you can do about it, and how you can grab Windows 10 by the throat and shake it up a bit. Player’s gotta play, play, play, play, and tweakers gotta tweak, tweak, tweak, tweak.
Shake it up.
With Windows 10’s tiles now basically replacing (and improving upon) Windows 7’s gadgets, there are fewer reasons to use the desktop now than ever before. Still, many installers put links for their own programs on the desktop, avoiding Start menu tiles like the plague, and you may have your own reasons for using Desktop shortcuts.
No matter what your bias, the taskbar remains an excellent place to put your most heavily used icons.
Decking out the Desktop
The Windows 10 desktop may look simple, but it isn’t. In Figure 3-1, for example, you ...
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