Did you know that you can move the taskbar to the top, right, or left sides of your screen? Right click on the taskbar. Click on “Lock the Taskbar” (if it IS locked it will have a check mark next to it, if not skip to the next step). Left click on the taskbar and drag it to its new location. Then right click on the taskbar and click “Lock the Taskbar” select the new location. Also you can watch a quick demo video on Microsoft’s website: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Unlock-and-move-the-taskbar
There is a faster way to access your recently or frequently used documents and files. Windows 7 comes with a way to quickly access those files from different programs. If you click on the Start Menu a list of programs will come up. These are the most frequently and/or recently used programs for your computer. Any programs (such as Word or Excel) that have documents saved to them will have a right facing arrow on the right of the program name. If you hover the mouse on that arrow a list of frequently or recently used documents will appear. You can select the document you need and open it from there. You can also select and drag the document from the “Jump List” to your desktop, folders, and even into emails.