Some of the additions to this version of Windows are The Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window allows you to configure the settings for these items. I will describe some of those options below. The same occurs for programs that are open, see screenshot below.Īside from the aesthetic and functional improvements described above, a plethora of new options have been made available. When the user right-clicks on a Quick Launch shortcut a menu appears which allows the user to open the shortcut or unpin the shortcut from the Quick Launch bar. When the mouse pointer hovers over the open program a short description will be displayed (see image above). Some of the Taskbar functional and visual enhancements have led to a series of changes.

The 'Show Desktop' shortcut previously included in the Quick Launch bar has been converted to a narrow bar at the end of the taskbar.

The taller Taskbar allows for the display of Time and the Date.

The notification area remains the same except that the arrow to expand hidden items now points up instead of to the left.

Open programs will appear as icons instead of icon and text as with previous versions.

The Quick Launch toolbar also remains but has been implemented with larger icons.

The first item is the Windows Orb which was adopted in Windows Vista and kept for Windows 7.

As you'll quickly notice Microsoft has kept the same layout as previous version of Windows except it is now taller.

Windows 7 show date in taskbar