Windows 8 In Depth

Pinning a Destination to a Program’s Jump List

A useful feature of the Windows 8 taskbar is the jump list, which is a menu of program commands, the most recently used files, and other features that appears when you right-click a program’s taskbar icon. For example, the Internet Explorer jump list includes a Frequent list of often-viewed sites, and the Media Player jump list includes a list of frequently played music and the command Play All Music.

Tip

By default, jump lists show only the ten most recently used destinations. If you’d like to see more (or even fewer) recent items, you can customize that number. To do this, right-click the taskbar, ...