Customizing the Desktop

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When you customize the Windows taskbar or Quick Launch toolbar, or create new toolbars, consider the following:

  • Decide which files, folders, programs, and Internet shortcuts your workgroup uses most frequently.

  • Determine the best method of presentation for your workgroup. For example, if your workgroup consists of writers working on a specific Microsoft Word document, you might want to create a shortcut to Microsoft Word or to that document on the Quick Launch toolbar. If your workgroup regularly accesses a folder of related files, programs, or Internet shortcuts, you might want to create a toolbar containing the contents of that folder and place it on the Windows taskbar or as a floating toolbar on the desktop.

  • Before you create new toolbars, you need to group the files, programs, and Internet shortcuts that your workgroup uses most frequently into one or more appropriately named folders. A new toolbar consists of the contents of a folder on a local or network drive; Windows 2000 uses the folder name for the toolbar name.