The wonderful taskbar in Windows 7 is explained in detail.

Chaitanya Sareen of Microsoft Windows Team, wrote an article in the development blog on the 20th, which details some information about the taskbar of Microsoft's next-generation operating system Windows 7. . From the article we saw a revolutionary new Windows taskbar.

1, Refreshed Look

The new design, with large icons enabled, looks like the Mac Dock. According to Chaitanya, this design is mainly to improve the "touch" operation experience, um, after all, if you are a little bigger, the finger operation will be easier. Personally, I don't really like the taskbar taking up too much space. Now the notebook screen has a widescreen, and the vertical viewing area is small. Now a taskbar is occupied.

2, Pinning

Pull function. You can drag a running program to the taskbar. You can see the current status of the program directly in the taskbar. It is like you are copying the operation. The taskbar will directly see the current progress. This function is quite good. Useful.

3,Unification

Unification. This time, Microsoft will quickly launch a combination of the programs already running in the taskbar. After you change the width of the quick launch bar, do you think you can put something else here? Microsoft believes that starting a program is the same as switching a running program to some extent, and unifying them here. .

4, Interactive, Grouped Thumbnails

Interactive grouping thumbnails. This friend who is concerned about Windows 7 should know what is going on. When you run multiple identical programs, such as IE, the window will automatically become a group after opening too many windows. In the taskbar of Windows 7, grouping After the program can also see the thumbnails, unlike Vista, only a single program can see the thumbnails, but this function how to do when there are too many startup programs? Estimated to open more than 20 IE windows , thumbnails are also not available.

5, Aero Peek

This way, you can allow you to display only the current window, and all other windows will only display translucent borders, which look like water ripples, of course. It depends on how many windows you have opened, but in general this feature is not as powerful as aero shake.

6, Jump Lists

Popup menu. This thing I want to use a similar software should have an impression, you can create a folder in the quick launch bar, in the folder you can group some related programs, click on the group, the pre-programmed program A list will pop up and you can do the appropriate action. Of course, in Windows 7, Microsoft has enhanced this feature. For example, right click on Word 2007 in the taskbar and a menu will pop up. The above content is actually the operation you want to open Word 2007. , such as opening the most recent document.

7, Custom Window Switchers

Custom window switching mode. Now mainstream browsers can implement multi-tab management windows. For example, IE 7, you can open multiple tags in an IE program. These tags may be related to a certain website. You can also open an IE program. The tags in this app are web pages related to other websites. This means that the management page looks a bit more convenient. Windows 7 brought this idea in. You can customize the window switching method of the program according to your personal preferences,

8, Thumbnail Toolbars

Toolbar thumbnails. This feature looks similar to the above, but when you run Windows Media Player you will find it useful. Right-clicking on WMP in the taskbar will pop up a window like Jump Lists, but different from Jump Lists. Yes, this is a simple operation of the video or the audio being played, such as pausing or changing the next song.

9, Notification Area

The information reminder area has been greatly improved with Windows XP and Vista. The reminder method here also uses the function of Jump Lists, which appears when you switch networks. Very convenient.

10, Overlay Icons and PRogress Bars

Combining shortcuts with running programs. With this integrated icon, you can see that the currently running program will be "integrated" with the icon so that you don't run a program again. As shown in the figure, the third icon has a effect similar to the progress bar, indicating that the current program is already running. The advantage of being integrated is that the taskbar is less crowded.

11, Color Hot-track

This colorful "track" surprise is probably the biggest, every time you put the mouse on the program shortcut, the icon The background color will be different. This function can also show whether the current program is running, but I don't see what is going on. The function in the test is unintelligible.

The introduction of Windows7 taskbar is here first. In general, Windows 7 is worthy of everyone's upgrade compared with Vista. XP users who have not used Vista may wish to consider upgrading to Windows 7. Windows 7 has much better resource utilization and hardware requirements than Vista.