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<\/p>\nJump Lists are a feature in Windows 7 that shows you recently accessed files for a particular application or recent tasks related to an application.<\/p>\n
Most commonly, Jump Lists are accessed by right clicking an application icon in Windows 7 taskbar. But Jump Lists can also be accessed by left clicking an application icon and while holding the mouse click dragging the icon upwards. For example — just right-click and drag the application icon upwards to access Jump Lists in Windows 7 using the left mouse button. The more you drag icon upwards the less transparent the Jump List becomes.<\/p>\n
So why in the world would you need or like Jump Lists? Well, we use them a lot when we’re doing research for this newsletter (don’t laugh!). And I use them to add Web sites I want to go back and look at later but don’t want to add to my bookmarks or favorites. Or if you access a files or files often with a particular program – say MS Word for example – Jump Lists can make it easy for you to access those files again when without browsing to them. But in order to make your favorite items always accessible from a program’s Jump List, you need to pin it to the top of the Jump List. And that’s as easy to do as left-clicking on one of the recent items that is displayed in the Jump List and dragging it to the very top of the list. Once a file is pinned to the top of the Jump List, it will stay there until you unpin it. I find Jump Lists handy for a lot of things, particularly when working frequently with the same file and when adding sites I want to check again – but which I don’t really want to add to my favorites or bookmarks.<\/p>\n
Here’s a Jump List for Internet Explorer 9. Since I rarely use IE9 the Jump List is short. But you can add as many items as you want to your Jump Lists – we’ll show you how to increase or decrease the number of items in a minute.<\/p>\n
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The top two items (above) are pinned to Internet Explorer 9’s Jump List. The top one is a site I was looking at and wanted to go back to test a program. The second is my favorite Web page \ud83d\ude42 To access either of those two, all I have to do is click on them.<\/p>\n
You can change the maximum number of items you can pin to a program’s jump list too – and it’s easy to do. Right-click your start button, choose “Properties”, click the Start Menu tab, then click the “Customize” button.<\/p>\n
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You can show as many as 60 items in your Jump Lists but don’t get crazy :-). I think 15 or so is enough – but hey! it’s your computer. Use the up and down arrows to the right of the “Number of recent items to display in Jump Lists: ” to set the number of items – then click “OK” and then “Apply” on the dialog that appears after you click OK. Windows sure wants to make certain you want to do what you’re doing.<\/p>\n
Oh, and one more thing – not all programs support Jump Lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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