I’m not really making that much use of the jumplist feature that Microsoft has implemented into the Windows 7 operating system. With a fast SSD as my main drive, it feels that the extra click needed to start the application is simply not worth it to open a specific feature or page that way. A [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Getting The Most Out of Windows 7 – Using the Jump Lists.
Jump Lists are undoubtedly one of the most secret efficiency tools that Windows 7 possesses. As you may already know, with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, the Start Menu showed a list of recently accessed files and documents that allowed users to navigate to them with a single click. But with all its ease, this [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Fixing Disappearing Jumplists Under Windows 7
I recently started to add custom jumplists to my sites. That’s when I noticed that jumplists were not showing up under Windows 7 at all anymore. Even standard programs like Microsoft Office, Firefox or Google Chrome where not showing any jumplists, except for the option to unpin the icon from the taskbar and to launch [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Clear Recent Items In Windows 7 Jumplists
Microsoft has introduced so called jumplists in Windows 7. These jumplists are part of the Windows 7 taskbar and appear when the user right-clicks an item in the taskbar. They usually display the most recent items that have been opened and can also contain shortcut links to program functions. One example of this would be [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Create Custom Windows 7 Jumplists
Jumplists are a new feature of the upcoming Windows 7 operating system. They provide quick application specific access by linking to functions and folders that are often used. This could for example be used to open the write email window in Microsoft Outlook or the most recent documents in Microsoft Word or Excel. Jumplists are [...]