15 Best Windows 7 Tips and Hacks
Right-click, drag, and pin your favorite folders to Windows Explorer on the taskbar. They will now show up in the Jump List when you right click on Explorer giving you quick access to your favorite folders.
Right-click, drag, and pin your favorite folders to Windows Explorer on the taskbar. They will now show up in the Jump List when you right click on Explorer giving you quick access to your favorite folders.
You can take advantage of Jump Lists in your applications and even control what gets displayed (except for the bottom two or three options which are always displayed by Windows 7). In this article, we’ll show how to create a categorized Jump List for your Windows 7 applications.
As you learned in Part I, Jump Lists give you with quick access to things like documents and tasks associated with applications. As you become more comfortable with using Jump Lists, you can start customizing them to meet your personal preferences. This includes pinning items to Jump Lists and configuring the number of items shown.
New in Windows 7 are Jump Lists. Some people see Jump Lists as being the same thing as the Recent Documents list. However, Jump Lists provide more.
Learn an easy-to-use mouse gesture that will help you access your taskbar jumplists.
Jumplist Launcher is a free portable tool for Windows 7 that allows you to add your favorite programs in a single jumplist so that they can become easily accessible. You can add up to 60 jumplist-items and they can be categorized into self-defined groups easily. Here is how it works, extract the zip archive, run the program (no installation required) and start adding groups, files, and folders.
Firefox 4 beta which was released yesterday has many new features and one of them is the support for Windows 7 taskbar jumplist. From the jumplist, you can open new Firefox tab, new session and also private browsing.