Fully understand the Windows xp system taskbar

Tip: What is the taskbar? The taskbar is the small strip at the bottom of the desktop. As shown in Figure 1, the expanded taskbar is mainly composed of the start menu, quick launch bar, application area and tray. District composition. Most of the installed software can be opened from the start menu. The quick launch bar stores shortcuts for the most frequently used programs. The application area is one of the main areas of our multitasking work, while the tray area is through various small icons. Visually display important information about the computer hardware and software, and the clock in the tray area is always with us.

1. The application foreground work background is busy

Basic function: Every open application will have a button in the application area, if you want to switch a program from the background to the foreground Display, you can click the button icon of the program in the application area; click the taskbar button in the foreground running window to minimize the current program to the taskbar, that is, switch to the background to continue working.

Super build: By default, if a program in the background changes, Windows will let its window button flash in the taskbar to remind you, instead of switching it to the foreground. Open "Registry Editor", expand [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop], find ForegroundLockTimeout in the right pane (default is 200000 in decimal), if you change the value to 0, then the program that changes will Automatically switch to the foreground. Find the ForegroundFlashCount (the default value is 0, which means it keeps flashing). If you change the value to 5 (or other values), only the number of times is set to 5 times.

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Basic functions: To close any foreground or background program, or to resize the program window, right-click the program icon on the taskbar. In the shortcut menu that pops up, select "Close". Right-click on the blank area of ​​the taskbar, as shown in Figure 2, select "Cascade window" or "tiling window", and you can "Cascade" or "tiling" all currently open program windows.

After installing Tweak UI, click the "mouse" tab, check "activate mouse follow (X-Mouse)" and "automatically mention the previous "checkbox when activated. The mouse that implements multiple windows is instant, see this article "Windows System Setup Wizard - Tweak UI".

3. Absolutely accurate date also comes to Chinese characteristics

Basic functions: By default, the tray area of ​​the taskbar will have a small clock to display the current time, if you want to know the current specific Date, you can point the mouse pointer to the time zone, and the screen will display the current date as a tooltip. Or double-click the time icon to pop up the "Date and Time Properties" window to view the current date and time.

(1) Double-click the time icon in the tray area, pop up the " date and time attribute" window, select "Internet time" tab, where you can choose which Internet time server to synchronize with, so When you connect to the Internet, the system automatically synchronizes with the clock of the selected Internet time server, so that the system clock is always accurate (this feature only supports Windows XP/2003).

(2) Download "When you can pass", after installation, move the mouse to the time to see the day of the week and the lunar calendar. You can also view it in a large window after double-clicking. For more details, please see the Windows operating system security set Windows operating system installation Windows channel topic, or

4. Multi-colored date and time also play flowers

Basic functions: Double-click "Control panel →locale", click the "date" tag, then select dddd yyyy MM dd or "dddd yyyy' year 'M' month 'd' day'" format from "long date format" , "Application" exits after setting. When the mouse points to the time icon in the tray area, the detailed current "year, month, day and week" is displayed.

Super Create: Open "Control Panel →Regional Settings & Rarr;Time"Label (Windows XP is "Control Panel & Rarr; Regional and Language Options & Rarr; Regional Options & Rarr; Custom & Rarr; Time " ; tag), as shown in Figure 3, add your name or other text in the input box at the back of the morning and afternoon, and then select from the above appearance: tt h:mm:ss or tt hh:mm:ss, At this time, you will see your name displayed in the tray area!

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