Windows XP Bible

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.Favorites: Displays your list of favorites things you visit frequently.Chapter 13 discussesways to create and manage Favorites in more detail.Media: Opens a player frame for playing multimedia files, such as music and video.If yourcomputer is connected to the Internet, it takes you to the Microsoft siteWindowsMedia.com, where you can select music and videos to play in Windows MediaPlayer (as discussed in Chapter 25).History: Displays a list of Web sites and folders you ve visited recently, organized andgrouped by day, Web site, and so forth.As in the Folders bar, you can expand and contractitems by clicking them, and jump to a location by clicking its name in the list.Tip of the Day: Displays a Tip of the Day, and a Next Tip link, at the bottom of the Explorerwindow.Tips are downloaded from the Microsoft Web site.Locking, unlocking, moving, and resizing toolbarsYou can add and remove various toolbars in Explorer, as you can in most Windows programs.You alsocan move toolbars around.However, you must unlock the toolbars first, if they re locked.To lock, aswell as to unlock the toolbars, choose View �! Toolbars �! Lock the Toolbars.When the toolbars arelocked, Lock the Toolbars option has a check mark next to it.The little dots at the left of the toolbars,which you can drag to move the toolbars, disappear when the toolbars are locked.To combine, split,and move toolbars, do the following:To combine two toolbars into one, drag the lower toolbar into the upper toolbar.To size combined toolbars, drag the dots to the left or right.To switch the left/right positions of combined toolbars, drag the dots of the leftmosttoolbar all the way to the right.page 46Windows XP BibleTo split combined toolbars into the two separate bars, drag the dots of the rightmosttoolbar down below the current toolbar.Standard Buttons toolbarThe Standard Buttons toolbar, which is visible in all the sample Explorer windows in this chapter,provides quick access to commonly used features of Explorer.You can show or hide that toolbar bychoosing View �! Toolbars �! Standard Buttons.The Address barThe optional Address bar, visible beneath the Standard Buttons toolbar in Figure 2-26, shows the nameof the location you re viewing at the moment.It also provides a drop-down list of other commonlyaccessed locations on your computer.You can jump to a new location by choosing it from the drop-down list.Figure 2-26: An Explorer window with all the trimmingsYou also can type the name of a new location to visit into the Address bar.After you ve finished typing,just press Enter or click the Go button to go to that location.Note that if you have Internet access, youcan type the URL of any Web site into the Address bar.For example, typing www.coolnerds.com andpressing Enter, or clicking the Go button, takes you to my Web site.Clicking the Back button takes youback to wherever you left from on your own computer.Although this is handy for quick visits to Websites, you ll probably want to use the Internet Explorer program, discussed in Chapter 6, for most of yourWeb browsing.The Links barThe optional Links bar, shown below the Address bar in Figure 2-26, provides quick links to commonlyvisited Web sites or locations on your own computer.The icons that initially appear within the Links barare just examples.You can easily add your own links, and remove any you don t want.Tip If you have Internet access, clicking the Customize Links icon in the Links bar willtake you to a Web page that provides more detailed instructions about how tocustomize your links.To add a link, first go to the folder or Web site to which you want to add a link.If the Address bar isn talready open, open it.Then drag the tiny icon that appears within the Address bar onto the Links barand drop it between any existing links in the Links bar.It s possible that your Links bar won t be large enough to display all available links.When that occurs,you can click the >> arrows at the right of the Links bar to view remaining links.To rename a link, right click its icon in the Links bar and choose Rename.Enter a new name (or edit theexisting name) in the dialog box that appears.To remove a link, just click its icon in the bar and chooseDelete.The Status barThe optional Status bar in Explorer provides brief information about whatever you re viewing in Explorerat the moment.It also offers the standard sizing pad, which you can drag to resize the window.You canpage 47Windows XP Biblesee an example along the bottom of the Explorer window shown in Figure 2-26.Choose View �! StatusBar from the Explorer menu bar to hide or display the Status bar.Searching for Lost FilesIt s not unusual, especially among beginners, to lose files on a hard disk.You might download a filefrom the Internet or create and save some document without paying much attention to where you put itor what you named it.Or, you may be digging around for some document you created ages ago, andhave long since lost track of its name and/or location.The Explorer Search Companion will help you findit.Cross- Newbies take note.Chapter 3 teaches you all about creating and savingReference documents.Chapter 6 explains how to download files from the Internet.To open the Search Companion:If you re already in Windows Explorer, just click the Search button in the Standard Buttonstoolbar.Or, choose View �! Explorer Bar �! Search [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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