Chapter 10: Customizing the Interface


Overview

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to:

  • Add more of your favorite programs to the Start menu.

  • Customize the Start menu for easy access to programs, window icons, and documents.

  • Create, display, and customize taskbar toolbars.

  • Use taskbar toolbars to improve productivity.

  • Make efficient use of your screen space.

In our estimation, the litmus test of any interface customization consists of a simple question: Does the modification improve productivity? We’ve seen far too many tweaks that fiddle uselessly with some obscure setting, resulting in little or no improvement to the user’s day-to-day Microsoft Windows experience. This may be fine for people with lots of time to kill, but most of us don’t have that luxury, so efficiency and productivity must be the goals of the customization process. (Note that this does not preclude aesthetic improvements to the Windows XP interface. A better-looking Windows provides a happier computing experience, and a happier worker is a more productive worker.)

To that end, we devote most of this chapter to the most common of computing tasks: launching programs and documents. This chapter is packed with useful tips and techniques for rearranging Windows XP to help you get your programs and documents up and running as quickly and as easily as possible.




Insider Power Techniques for Microsoft Windows XP
Insider Power Techniques for Microsoft Windows XP (Bpg-Other)
ISBN: 0735618968
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 126

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