The main Taskbar--displays icons for all open applications and files. The System Tray--contains the clock and icons for some of the programs running in the background. We'll look at each of these in turn. While the Start menu isn't technically part of the Taskbar, you can control it from there.
Right click on an empty area of the main Taskbar section, and a menu will pop up. Click on Properties, and you will see a tab for the Start Menu. Check this out to see all the ways you can customize the Start menu.
One other thing you can do to make Programs easier to find in the Start menu is to open the "All Programs" menu. Right click on any item in the list. A menu will pop up. Lets take a quick look at each function. The purpose of the quick launch area is to hold shortcuts to programs frequently used. Since the taskbar is always visible, any program icon in the quick launch area is just a click away. If you repeatedly require a particular program throughout the day, placing an icon here will save you from having to switch to the desktop or fish through the many programs listed under the Start menu button.
To place a shortcut on the taskbar, simply drag and drop an icon from the desktop to the quick launch area. Some programs suitable for the quick launch area might include your favorite Web browser , email client and word processor. A shortcut to Notepad will allow you to type quick reminders or paste bits of text, and a calculator and conversion utility can also be handy to place here.
Some programs will automatically put a quick launch icon in this toolbar when installed. Move your mouse over an icon to have a preview of the other window, then click on it to switch.
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System "tray" is a place for system notifications. Though some applications may notify you on new email or new instant message and you can click on this notification to quickly respond to it read, answer , it is definitely not the place where you should look for application to start a new task for example, to compose new email.
Even Windows guides warn developers from putting non-notifying icons to systray. Unrelated icons can distract user from events that really need his attention. Well, the task bar is for windows that the user has opened, where as the system tray is system controlled. The placement of icons for user programs in the system tray is an apparition. They were never meant to be there but the affordance of a place for icons rather than task buttons is undeniable.
Merging them would damage them both as it would destroy their unique features. To the question of whether or not there's a valid reason to split the bottom bar into a quick-start, taskbar, and system tray, two answers emerge. Quick-start icons are available for launching convenience - however, OS advances have started to minimize the difference between a program being open and a program being inactive. Launch times for most programs are minimal, which helps to change how we think of programs: from a program being almost open to open.
By keeping these settings more or less always in focus, we keep important information up-front at all times yet still out of the way. Warnings and status updates are kept here so there's never a guess as to "Where I can go to see these updates. The quickstart and taskbar icons used to do separate things. The quickstart icons would launch applications while the taskbar would allow access to applications that were already running.
Developments in operating systems have diminished the difference between applications that are or aren't running. Both could take up space in memory. Running applications don't necessarily take up resources and you'll have plenty resources anyway. Start up times have also diminished, making the difference between accessing a running application to perform an action and starting a new application for that action almost negligible.
If this is true, why should users even care if an application is running or not?
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