Tutorial 1 – Introducing the new Desktop, Start Menu and Taskbar
In Windows 7 tutorial 1, we start at the very beginning of Windows 7 with an introduction to the Desktop, Start Menu and the all new Taskbar. New in Windows 7 is the improved Taskbar and the neater System Tray, which you’ll see briefly in this video. Both of these new features will be explored in more detail in later tutorials too.
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Additional notes
Your Windows 7 Taskbar, Desktop and System Tray will probably have different icons on them. This is perfectly normal, it all depends on what you have installed on your machine.
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