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I recently purchased a new laptop to replace my El Cheapo ALLDOCUBE. Its plastic case was warping so I’m sure its days are numbered. Oh well. it was a deal for $200! I got a good 2 1\/2 years out of that cheap little laptop. I worked that laptop hard, day after day… I got my money’s worth out of it, that’s for sure. I never intended to use it for my main laptop but that little thing was so fast and reliable, I used it to death. The pain of setting up a new computer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I feel your pain! All of you who have set up a brand-new PC know how time-consuming it can be to make your new PC look and work like the old one. Even if you have things backed up. It’s the things you take for granted that come back to haunt you.<\/span><\/p>\n The Gmail shortcut is one of the most useful taskbar icons I had one the El Cheapo and so I wanted a Gmail taskbar on my new PC too. But, it’s been a while since I created that shortcut so I couldn’t remember exactly how I did it (I’m getting old!). But<\/span> it’s not like making a typical taskbar shortcut.<\/span><\/p>\n Making a taskbar shortcut for Gmail the right way<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Making a shortcut to Gmail isn’t as easy as you might think – that is if you want it to look and work the way it should.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s been so long since I created a taskbar shortcut for Gmail that I forgot how to do it. So, today, we will show you the right way to create a shortcut to Gmail on your taskbar.<\/span><\/p>\n Open Gmail in the Google Chrome browser. You have to use Chrome for this one. While your Gmail page is open, click the three vertical dots in the top right corner of the browser –> hover over “More Tools<\/strong>“, and click “Create Shortcut<\/strong>“.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tick the box next to ‘Open as window’ This makes Gmail open separately from any other browser tabs or open browsers.<\/span><\/p>\n Gmail should open immediately. Now look in your taskbar, right-click on the Gmail icon, and click ‘Pin to Taskbar’. <\/span><\/p>\n This creates a taskbar shortcut with the Gmail icon.<\/span><\/p>\n You can drag the icon around your taskbar to place it exactly where you want it. You can also right-click on the shortcut, then right-click on Gmail, and choose “Pin to Start” to add Gmail to your Start menu. BONUS TIP:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n You can use the same method to create a shortcut to Google Calendar, Google Drive, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n Create a Handy Taskbar Shortcut for Gmail — the Right Way I recently purchased a new laptop to replace my El Cheapo ALLDOCUBE. Its plastic case was warping so I’m sure its days are numbered. Oh well. it was a deal for $200! I got a good 2 1\/2 years out of that cheap little laptop.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,1751,4467,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26809"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27398,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26809\/revisions\/27398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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