![]() ![]() You can hide inactive icons, as you could in XP, but there’s a new System Icons group that enables you to toggle the icons for four different items: Clock, Volume, Network, and Power. As you can see in Figure 3.7, the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box (right-click an empty section of the taskbar and then click Properties) now comes with a Notification Area tab. Speaking of the notification area, it’s now a bit more customizable in Vista. Right-click the taskbar and then deactivate the Lock the Taskbar command to do things such as resize the Quick Launch toolbar and display more taskbar rows.) (The breaks are still there, but they don’t appear with the taskbar locked. Also, the taskbar now appears as an integrated whole, meaning that you no longer see any visual breaks between the Quick Launch toolbar on the left, the taskbar’s icon area in the middle, and the notification area on the right. If your video card supports the Aero Glass interface, the taskbar appears with the transparency effect so you can see the desktop behind it. To the right of the Start button, the taskbar itself has a new look. It sure looks nice, but I have to wonder if it will confuse novice users because in the past they saw the word Start and at least had a logical place in the interface to get something going. The most obvious change here is that the Start button has morphed from XP’s rounded rectangle to a translucent orb showing just the Windows Vista logo. ![]()
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