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In Computing , the taskbar is a term for the application desktop bar which is used to launch and monitor applications in Microsoft Windows 95 and later versions (actually its part of the Windows Shell , see Desktop Shell Replacement ). Other Desktop Environment s also feature similar interface elements.


MICROSOFT WINDOWS

In Windows, the default location for the taskbar is at the bottom of the screen, and from left to right it contains by default the Start menu, '''Quick Launch bar''', '''taskbar buttons''' and '''notification area''' (or "'''system tray'''")The notification area is most commonly referred to as the "system tray" or "systray". Microsoft developers caution that this is incorrect; references in Windows to the "systray" are artifacts of a feature that was planned for Windows 95 but ultimately replaced by the taskbar. At the same time, the phrase "system tray" is found in several places on Microsoft's website, often as written by developers. For more information, refer to Windows developer .
  • The Start Menu contains commands that can access programs, documents, and settings. These commands include Programs, Documents, Settings, Find, Help, Run, and Shut Down.

  • The Quick Launch bar, introduced with , although it can be enabled.

  • The Windows Shell places a taskbar button on the taskbar whenever an application creates an unowned window: that is, a window that doesn't have a parent and that is created according to normal Windows UI guidelines. Typically all SDI applications have a single taskbar button for each open window, although Modal Window s may also appear there. Windows XP introduced ''taskbar grouping'', which can group the taskbar buttons of several windows from the same application into a single button. This button pops up a menu listing all the grouped windows when clicked. This keeps the taskbar from being overcrowded when many windows are open at once.

  • The last part of the taskbar is called the notification area. It contains mainly status notifications, though some programs, such as Winamp , use it for minimized windows. The clock by default appears here, and applications can put icons in the notification area to indicate the status of an operation or to notify the user about an event. For example, an application might put a printer icon in the status area to show that a print job is under way, or a display driver application may provide quick access to various screen resolutions. In Windows XP, the user can choose to permanently display or hide some icons, or hide them if inactive for some time. A button allows the user to reveal all the icons. Optionally, a clock can be displayed in the notification area. A class of utilities typically called Taskbar Clock Replacements can replace the Windows XP taskbar clock with a clock with more features.



Other toolbars may be added to the taskbar, and it can also be hidden, placed on top of other applications, or moved to the side or the top of the screen.
  • Upon opening the Taskbar properties on Windows 95 and Windows 98 whilst holding down the CTRL key, an extra tab for DeskBar Options is shown, but no part of it can be used. The DeskBar option was a feature that never got included within these versions of Windows {Link without Title} .



OTHER DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS

Windows is not the only operating system with a taskbar: similar bars are present in various Linux desktop environments. The Dock , as featured in Mac OS X and its predecessor NEXTSTEP , is also a kind of taskbar. The first known implementation of the concept is seen in Acorn's Arthur operating system, which was released in 1987 for their Archimedes computer. It is called the ''Iconbar'' and remains an essential part of Arthur's succeeding RISC OS operating system. The Iconbar holds icons which represent mounted disc drives and RAM discs, running applications and system utilities. These icons have their own context-sensitive menus and support drag and drop behaviour.

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The second part is the taskbar runs across the top of the screen and helps keep track of running applications. This is similar to the 'Taskbar buttons' area of the Windows taskbar.

Similarly, the GNOME desktop environment uses its own type of taskbar, known as panels (the program responsible for them is therefore called Gnome-panel ). By default, GNOME usually contains two panels (one on the top, and one to its opposite on the bottom) running the length of the screen. The top panel usually contains navigation menus labelled ''Applications'', ''Places'', and ''System'' in that order. These menus hold links to common applications, areas of the file system, and system preferences and administration utilities, respectively. The top panel usually contains a clock and notification area, which can double as a sort of dock, as well.
The bottom panel is commonly empty by default, other than a set of buttons to navigate between desktops and a button to minimize all windows and show the desktop, due to its use in the navigation between windows (windows minimize to the bottom panel by default).

These panels can be populated with other completely customizable menus and buttons, including new menus, search boxes, and icons to perform quick-launch like functions. Other applications can also be attached to the panels, and the panels are highly reconfigurable: anything on these panels can be moved, removed, or configured in other ways. For example, a dedicated Windows user migrating to GNU/Linux might move the menus usually posed in the top panel into a 'start' menu on the bottom panel as well as moving the notification area into the place normally posed by the Windows notification area, then remove the top panel altogether, in order to emulate Windows.


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